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.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
Diabetes taught me discipline.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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