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

John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation

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

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