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Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine
Age: 72 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 29
Died: 1809
Died: June 8
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
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The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.
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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.
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When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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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.
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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 his country but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected if not, they will be despised.
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
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