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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.

John Locke

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
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
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.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
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
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills

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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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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