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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

John Locke

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
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
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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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Doubt might Self
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Blessing Children Men
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
JOHN LOCKE

Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking

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