Quote by Thomas Paine
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

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

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Death
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. – Thomas Paine

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good
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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smile
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Glory
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Military glory –the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. – Abraham Lincoln

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave. – Thomas Gray

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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. – David Jenkins

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Glory

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. – William Shakespeare

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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