I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
JOHN LOCKEA criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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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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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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