Tag: Thomas Paine
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Thomas Paine
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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine
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Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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These are the times that try men’s souls.
Thomas Paine
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine