Thomas Shaffer

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Thomas is Currently Reading

Thomas Shaffer is currently reading

Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

by Catholic Church

bookshelves: currently-reading, christianity, religion, non-fiction

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Jul 14, 2014 01:20AM

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

bookshelves: high-fantasy, currently-reading

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Dec 12, 2013 01:28PM

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

bookshelves: detective-fiction, currently-reading

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Thomas’s Quotes

“There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

tags: potential

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“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: ethics, hope, passion, philosophy, possibility, religion

156 likes

“...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
― Thomas Paine

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“Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series

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“..., and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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