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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

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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Common Littles 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
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
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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Atheism Credit Reason
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
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
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
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
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
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

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