Employing Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Employing Men Painful Political Politics Talent
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better than one should suffer than that many should be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a… — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should… — John Venn Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
