Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Retiring
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I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
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Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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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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I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
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The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
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