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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.

John Locke

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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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Age Gretest Mischie World
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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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Balance Men Self
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
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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Balance Integrity Men
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
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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Children Giving Thinking
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon

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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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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