Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression.

—Thomas Paine

About Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809; ) was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American...

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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

—Thomas Paine

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

—Thomas Paine

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

—Thomas Paine

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

—Thomas Paine

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

—Thomas Paine

More quotations tagged with “duty”

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

—Thomas Brummond

There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

The first duty of love is to listen.

—Robert E. Lee

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

—Paul Tillich

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