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“People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image”

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Colin Fletcher, a British writer born on March 14, 1922, and died on June 12, 2007, is renowned for his hiking literature. His works often explore the relationship between humans and nature, and his profound understanding of wilderness life. more

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.”

Ifs States Unions Separation Sovereignty Hesitation Continuance Secession

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.”

Giving Should Self Government Values Liberty Rights Giving Up Safety Unions Determined Sovereignty Self-government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”

Men Said Done Enemy Particular Evidence Occasions Gossip Uniforms Tenors

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”

Men Common Race Generations Kings Twenties Common Sense One Man

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.”

Men Work Labor

Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.”

Giving Soul Hands Pain Stars Grief Angel Claims Shining Glad Immortality Height Shakes Climbs Disguise Greetings Shining Star

Author:Thomas Jefferson

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