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.
When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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