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.
JOHN LOCKEIf all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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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.
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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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