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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

John Locke

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking
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
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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
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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Government Long Thinking
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Credit Reason

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