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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

John Locke

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.
JOHN LOCKE

Brother Spurs Teaching
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Long Thinking
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
JOHN LOCKE

Foundation Happiness Liberty
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Use Wonder
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Government Lying
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Evil Karma Men
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
JOHN LOCKE

Strengthening Struggle Way
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
JOHN LOCKE

Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
JOHN LOCKE

Liberty Live Men Rules
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKE

Leisure Recreation Use
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE

Care Fancy Parent
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKE

Cherish Children Curiosity

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