As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
JOHN LOCKETill 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.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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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.
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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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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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.
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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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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.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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