The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKEHe 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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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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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.
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A 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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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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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