When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
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The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New TestamentThomas Paine
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Thomas Paine
What we may obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly t is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity And that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
Thomas Paine
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