Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
JOHN LOCKEWhen the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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