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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

John Locke

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
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
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
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
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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Brother Spurs Teaching
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May

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