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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.

John Locke

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
JOHN LOCKE

Diamond Math Proof
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Kings Men Names
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKE

Divinity Pattern Portraiture
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKE

Cherish Children Curiosity
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
JOHN LOCKE

Given Mean Provision
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Knowing Men
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
JOHN LOCKE

Judgement Judging Prison
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
JOHN LOCKE

Chameleon Children Wonder
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Integrity Men
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
JOHN LOCKE

Heaven Way Wealth
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Memories Sight
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKE

Freedom Names Play
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Long Thinking

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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