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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

John Locke

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Book Successful Writing
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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 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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Atheism Government Lying
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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Gentleman Men Opposites
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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

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