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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.

John Locke

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
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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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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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Criminal Men War
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

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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