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Thomas Paine Quotes

Thomas Paine quotes about reflection

English Writer January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809

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Thomas Paine quote: "I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather..."
I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine quote: "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from..."
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of... Thomas Paine
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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