Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKEThere is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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.
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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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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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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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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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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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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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