Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
JOHN LOCKEAs 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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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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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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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