...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.
Thomas Paine Power Quotes
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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 one does not believe.
Thomas Paine The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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