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| I
have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters
of their thoughts. |
| It
is ambition enough to be employed as an under-laborer in clearing
the ground a little and removing some of the rubbish that lies
in the way of knowledge. |
| 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. |
| Good
and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational
creature : these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind
are set on work and guided. |
| The
improvement of understanding is for two ends : first, our own
increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that
knowledge to others. |
| Virtue
is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and if lost
in a young man, is seldom recovered. |
| The
only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. |
| Wherever
law ends, Tyranny begins. |
| Law,
in its proper Notion, is the Direction of a free and intelligent
Agent to his proper interest. |
