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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

John Locke

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKE

Example Imitation
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Memories Names Science
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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