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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.

John Locke

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
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
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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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Differences Men Thinking
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
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
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
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
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
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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
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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Dream Men Waking

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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