Thomas Paine Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

• 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

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  Thomas Paine “Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

• One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Giving, Lions

  Thomas Paine (2016). “Common Sense”, p.12, Coventry House Publishing

• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving, Heaven, Would Be

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving Up, Military, War

  Thomas Paine (2008). “The American Crisis”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

• The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

  Thomas Paine

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.88

• It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor?

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Giving, Why Not

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.162

• I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving, Age, World

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