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Tranquility is the old mans milk. - Thomas Jefferson

Tranquility is the old mans milk. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. – Thomas Jefferson

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Experience
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Thomas Jefferson
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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Life
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Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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Thomas Jefferson
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Other Quotes from
Serenity
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There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman

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Serenity

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. – Johnny Miller

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Serenity

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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Serenity

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Serenity

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Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. – Joan Jett

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environmental

Everyone takes pause at 40. Its the age you have to assess everything in your life. Its the fictitious marker thats always coming up when youre young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means. – Paul Feig

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What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. – Author Unknown

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Teacher Appreciation

I dont want to lose my fitness. Im 45. I have two babies. Ive got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. Theres no magic bullet. – Marcia Cross

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fitness