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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."
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