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

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

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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

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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.

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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.

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Some persons... conclude that making any progress in knowledge, further than serves their ordinary business, is above their capacity.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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