music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
Interpretation
Engaging in creative activities and physical exercise can help alleviate boredom.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of engaging in various artistic and intellectual pursuits, such as music, drawing, reading, and invention, along with physical activities like exercise, as valuable tools to combat feelings of boredom and ennui. He suggests that these resources can enrich one's life and stimulate the mind, thereby keeping monotony at bay.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming boredom with creativity, one might say, 'As Thomas Jefferson once said, music, drawing, books, invention, and exercise can be great resources against ennui.'
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.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
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