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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

John Locke

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

Common Littles 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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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
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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Chameleon Children Wonder
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
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
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Community Design Liberty

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