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

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" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "

" 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 discipline of desire is the background of character. "

" The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. "

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

" As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. "

" 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. "

" What worries you, masters you. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. "

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

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

" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "

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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. "

" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "

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

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

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

" 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 men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. "

" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "