"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
― Thomas Paine
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Change
More From Thomas Paine
- "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."
- "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."
- "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."
More In Change
- "Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."― Denis Waitley
- "I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country."― Tony Campolo
- "Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."― William Hazlitt