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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

John Locke

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
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
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
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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Children Employed Hate Use
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
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
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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Doctrine Giving Way
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

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