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" All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. "
Health
Life
Liberty
" All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. "
Passion
Interest
Men
" All wealth is the product of labor. "
Product
Labor
Wealth
" An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. "
Man
Villain
Precious
" Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. "
Him
Love
Present
" A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. "
World
Short
Mind
" As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. "
People
Same
Path
" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "
Good
Reflection
Reading
" Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. "
Man
Person
Own
" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "
Most
Riches
Nothing
" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "
Fortitude
Strength
Support
" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "
End
Government
Property
" I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. "
Know
Information
Men
" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
Best
Thought
Thoughts
" I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. "
Half
Than
Tragic
" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "
Easier
Command
Tutor
" It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. "
Ocean
Great
Depths
" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "
Show
Him
Man
" New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "
Without
Reason
Opinions
" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "
Knowledge
Man
Beyond
" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "
Will
Than
Mark
" Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. "
Time
Day
Every Day
" 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. "
Finance
Trip
Small
" Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. "
Fountain
Wonder
Parents
" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "
Only
Knowledge
Thinking
" Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. "
Ideas
Dreams
Reflection
" The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. "
Children
Blessings
God
" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "
Character
Discipline
Desire
" The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "
More
Good
Evil
" 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 law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. "
Where
Law
Capable
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