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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

John Locke

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
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
[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
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
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
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk
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

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