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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
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
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Children Killing Taught
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
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

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

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