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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laug

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. – Thomas Hobbes

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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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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