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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Author : Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Author : 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.

Author : Thomas Paine

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Author : Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Author : Thomas Paine

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Author : Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Author : Thomas Paine

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 he does not believe.

Author : Thomas Paine

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Author : Thomas Paine

Time makes more converts than reason.

Author : Thomas Paine