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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise."
Service
"I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff."
Interest
"There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females."
Education
"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
Agriculture
"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
Moon
"In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side."
Balance
"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
Soul
"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers."
Power
"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
Business
"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."
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"I wonder at the idleness of tears."
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"Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish."
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"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."
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"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron."
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"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
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