All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for, and he fou...ght for them once, for the only reason that any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain, simple rule--Love Thy Neighbor. And in this world today, full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, e...very day common rightness. And this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world. A lot of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesus ...would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Fountaine of parents duties is Love....Great reason there is why this affection should be fast fixed towards their children. F...or great is that paine, cost, and care, which parents must undergoe for their children. But if love be in them, no paine, paines, cost or care will seeme too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine,... Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I were content to wearie out my paine, To bee Narsissus so she were a spring... To drowne in hir those woes my heart do wring: And more I wish transformed to remaine: That whilest I thus in pleasures lappe did lye, I might refresh desire, which else would die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them & the same will it be agai...nst Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operat...ing on the mind than on the body of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »