"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

13 April 2016

Happy birthday, Jefferson.

Scully, Thomas Jefferson, 1821


Thomas Jefferson was born on this day in 1743.

Above all things lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous etc. consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties, & increase your worth.  Be good, be learned, and be industrious, and you will not want the aid of travelling to render you precious to your country, dear to your friends, happy within yourself. I repeat my advice to take a great deal of exercise, and on foot. Health is the first requisite after morality.
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