Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKEWords, 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 no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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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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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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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.
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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