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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it

John Locke

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
JOHN LOCKE

Judgement Judging Prison
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
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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Ideas Memories Sight
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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

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