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" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "

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" 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. "

" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "

" 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. "

" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "

" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "

" All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. "

" Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. "

" The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. "

" 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. "

" All wealth is the product of labor. "

" I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. "

" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "

" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "

" 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. "

" Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. "

" Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. "

" We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. "

" New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "

" The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "

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" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "

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" To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. "

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" 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. "