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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

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
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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Ignorance Knowing Men
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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
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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Book Men Thinking
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
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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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Children Killing Taught
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.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor

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