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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

Thomas Jefferson
Prayer, Heart, Feelings
Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Jefferson Papers [1770-1826”

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Thomas Jefferson
Slides, Sin, Repentance
Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Thomas Jefferson
Solitude, Chilled
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.154, Rowman & Littlefield

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.

Thomas Jefferson
Integrity, Believe, Men
Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.278, Penguin

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

Thomas Jefferson
Judging, House, Independence
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished. ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

Thomas Jefferson
Florida, Rights, Expression

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

Thomas Jefferson
Europe, Land, Labor
Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Thomas Jefferson
Care, Politics, Entertainment

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Thomas Jefferson
Hate, Tired, Men
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.208, Rowman & Littlefield

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

Thomas Jefferson
Money, Mean, Standards

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

Thomas Jefferson
Race, Racism, Mind
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.386

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy, Class, Giving
Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810”, p.110, Princeton University Press

But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Education, Views, Law

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

Thomas Jefferson
Education, Errors, Years
Thomas Jefferson (1953). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 25 February to 31 October 1785”

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Thomas Jefferson
Regret, Home, Giving

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Thomas Jefferson
Government, Degrees, Public Opinion
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

Thomas Jefferson
Mean, People, Patriotism
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.191

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

Thomas Jefferson
Morning, Two, Yesterday
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy, Issues, Horizon
Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.69

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

Thomas Jefferson
Honesty, Government, House
Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

Thomas Jefferson
War, Enemy, Forget

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

Thomas Jefferson
Office, Bureaucracy, Difficulty

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

Thomas Jefferson
Country, Prayer, Heart

The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson
World, Majesty, Facts
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.203, Cosimo, Inc.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Thomas Jefferson
Pain, Giving, Mind
Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”