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.
Creativity does not stop just because you're over 50. Hollywood spits female actresses out after age 29, but you don't stop creating. If anything, you become wiser and even better.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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