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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

John Locke

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
JOHN LOCKE

Community Design Liberty
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Children Employed Hate Use
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
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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Children Independent Thinking
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKE

Dream Philosophical Reflection
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
JOHN LOCKE

Kings Men Names
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Reflection Simple
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy

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