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Fence Quotes - Page 2

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

"Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

"Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District, 333 U.S. 203". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 8, 1948.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan