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#1

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#2

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#3

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness

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#4

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

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#5

“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

tags: equality, ethics, morality, rights, secular-ethics, secular-morality

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#6

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: blessings, freedom, liberty

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#7

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: growth, strength, struggle, triumph

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#8

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: conviction, freedom, values

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#9

“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible

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#10

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

tags: common-sense

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#11

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

tags: boast, constitution, government, happiness, independence, perfect-government, perfection

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#12

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Thomas Paine

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#13

“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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#14

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism

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#15

“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, The Age of Reason

tags: belief, disbelief, happiness, infidelity, lie, self-respect

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#16

“My own mind is my own church.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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#17

“Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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#18

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
― Thomas Paine

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#19

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

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#20

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: activism, truth-and-lies, wisdom

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#21

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: anger, anger-management

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#22

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: character, reputation

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#23

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
― Thomas Paine

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#24

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: history, revolution

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#25

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: accountability, trust

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#26

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”
― Thomas Paine, The Crisis

tags: 1776, december-23

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#27

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, skepticism

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#28

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
― Thomas Paine

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#29

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: church, creed, enslave, greek, human-invention, jewish, monopolize, power, profit, protestant, religion, roman, turkish

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#30

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism

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