Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
JOHN LOCKEThough the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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