There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Paine, Thomas
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row 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.
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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