Quotes of Thomas Paine

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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

- Thomas Paine

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“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

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“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

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“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

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“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

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“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

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“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

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- Jandy Nelson

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

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“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

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