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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men 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
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

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