But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKEThe great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
More John Locke Quotes
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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.
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If 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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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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.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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.
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