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Thomas Paine Quotes

Thomas Paine quotes about time

English Writer January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809

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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... Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie. Thomas Paine
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine quote: "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my..."
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine quote: "Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more..."
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine quote: "These are the times that try men's souls."
These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine
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
Thomas Paine quote: "Time makes more converts than reason."
Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine

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