Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKEWhoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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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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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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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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