“Because, the longer it is delayed the harder it will be to accomplish.”
If you like history this is a great read. Fast and easy to understand. Common Sense is about building America and it‘s new values through the eyes of a founding father.
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pickIf you like history this is a great read. Fast and easy to understand. Common Sense is about building America and it‘s new values through the eyes of a founding father.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
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“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue is not hereditary.”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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“Common Sense is not so common” said Voltaire to Nielsen.
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I had to read small sections of this in high school. All I remember is that is was a slog.
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“Common Sense is not so common” said Voltaire to Nielsen.
so-so• Started out strong and tapered off at the halfway point; I suppose it was just the antiquated language and the unfamiliar historical laws of the time which bored me a lot. Highly intellectual read and I did enjoy the first half more than I expected. Still a so-so read, overall. Plan to read more Paine though •
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"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil..."
-- Common Sense, Thomas Paine
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"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher."
-- Common Sense, Thomas Paine
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• Today's smarty-pants word: "encomium," meaning "glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise." Not to be confused with the medical term "meconium" Lol •
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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
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I know all you Littens will be envying my reading selections today. 😏😝
A nice day for some Common Sense
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pickMy first read of 2019. I‘m giving it a pick because I think it‘s important that we are well versed in our country‘s history - and that includes the racism and sexism of the founding ideas. I don‘t believe the founders or their influencers are beyond reproach- we can appreciate what they did brilliantly, but we must also deal with what they got wrong or we‘ll never move forward.
pickYou have to meet a book where it lives, not where you want it to be. After this was mentioned in several of the presidential biographies I‘d read, I thought I should read it. When I take off my 21st Century glasses and think like someone in the 1700‘s, I understand how this pamphlet reignited (and in some cases ignited) passion for independence from Great Britain. There was a LOT going on in this time period and it was interesting to read this.
panThis political piece using the appeal of religious zeal and hatred of “the other” is painful to read, though he does make a sound argument to fell the divine right of kings. Also, the morbid irony of his criticism against the so-called “slavery” the British colonists experience under the King‘s rule and William the Conqueror‘s invasion of England “against the consent of the natives...” I really want to smack him with his hypocrisy. @SerialReader
Received this copy of COMMON SENSE by Thomas Paine, originally published in 1776, from Jes Lyons over at @HarperCollins // @WilliamMorrow and I cannot get over how beautiful this cover is 😍
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I also cannot get over the fact that the review on the cover is from the Schuyler sisters. Heyyyyy Hamilton reference 👋🏼
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pickWell-written essay on the reasons the colonists need to break away from Britain. I can see why this was such a popular essay.
Interesting book mail today.
"For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe, that it is the will of the Almighty, that there should be a diversity of religious opinions among us: it affords a larger field for our Christian kindness." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship or safety." From Common Sense by Thomas Paine. I wonder whether those in government have read this when they seek to deny people from other countries asylum.
pickI just felt like I needed to read this. It was genuinely interesting. I was worried that I might find it boring.
Because I have no self control, I've left my mystery 🕵🏻♀️ story in the living room and gone to bed with this and my poetry. If I read fiction in bed, I stay up way too late. 🤓
Hello piece of history. How you fascinate me so... Best part, I found it in an old school news paper.
pickMy 100th book of year 2016!
Paine is a product of his time. I think his writings regarding the independence of the US are fascinating, but you do have to put up with some prejudices. I'd still recommend it, however, for those interested in philosophy or US history, or those who are American citizens. 😜 #ReadHarder2016 #bookinpolitics
pickInteresting reread during this election season. Does it have some flaws? Sure. Does it still inspire? Absolutely.
From the book that started America:
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls and the bane of all good society"
I own two editions, one of them a facsimile and never tire of its direct, clear, logical style
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” - Thomas Paine. I picked up four books from the @penguinbooks “Great Ideas” series at The Abbey Bookshop in Paris last week. I couldn‘t wait to crack the spine on “Common Sense” after discussing it with the owner of the shop.
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.
"I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine so men say that I'm intense or I'm insane . . ."
A little assigned reading for election season, and the Hamilton fans among us.
On William the Conqueror: "A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, in plain terms a paltry rascally original."
Love this language...makes me smile with delight!
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
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Emmy was not pleased I was paying attention to my books rather than her. She likes to snug them, toss them on the floor, then jump in my lap.
