Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
Interpretation
Challenges may occur, but with common sense and good intentions, we can navigate through them.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of using common sense and having honest intentions when faced with challenges. It suggests that while difficulties are a part of life, they can often be overcome through clear reasoning and integrity, highlighting a practical approach to problem-solving.
In practice
During a team meeting, to encourage collaboration in overcoming obstacles.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
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