Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKEThere are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
More John Locke Quotes
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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