The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Interpretation
Valuable thoughts and feelings hold more significance than material wealth.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of positive and warm thoughts over financial riches. It highlights the idea that emotional and intellectual richness can provide fulfillment and happiness that money cannot buy.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of mental health, one might say, 'The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money, reminding us all to cherish our mindset.'
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.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
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