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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

Thomas Hobbes Quotes and Quotations

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

- Thomas Hobbes | The Mind Quotes

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards, or menaces of torture.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

- Thomas Hobbes | Hope Quotes

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

- Thomas Hobbes | Death Quotes

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

- Thomas Hobbes | Gift Quotes

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

- Thomas Hobbes | Leisure Quotes

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

- Thomas Hobbes | Passion Quotes

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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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