Quotes by English/England authors (page 55)

"Exercise is labor without weariness"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"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"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Human nature is not of itself vicious"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"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"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Character is much easier kept than recovered"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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