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What worries you, masters you.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.” Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
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