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• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country
  but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of our men and women....
• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on this earth unarmed.
  His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force....
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• The following ties in nicely with another thread (What is music?
  ) All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it....