“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.”
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“Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.”
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“Silence is a fence around wisdom.”
Source: Hilkhot De'ot (Laws Concerning Character Traits), Chapter 2, Section 5, p. 33
“Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.”
Samuli Paronen, quoted in: M.kumar. Dictionary of Quotations, APH Publishing, 2008. p. 168
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1988)
Context: The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”
Sec. 94
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.