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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"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."
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
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