Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Happiness
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You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
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My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
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In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
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Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
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