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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

John Locke

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Blessing Children Men
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Expression Fashion Suffering
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
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
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
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science

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