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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

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
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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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Men Science Truth
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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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Order Respect Son
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules
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
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
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Curiosity Silly
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor

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