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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke

Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Libertarian Maintenance
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May

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