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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
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
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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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Father Liberty Son
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
When 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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Degrees Landed Talk

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

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