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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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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Evil Karma Men
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.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
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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Depth Ocean Serendipity
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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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Balance Law Punishment
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
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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Atheism Credit Reason
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect

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