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His Own Quotes by Thomas Paine
- Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
- He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
- The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation…
- Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of…
- He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent…
- I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies…
- For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all…
- The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is…
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- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
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- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr