Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to …

Thomas Jefferson
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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 and increase your worth. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1963). The Thomas Jefferson Papers, Dodd
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