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John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE

Allow People Tell
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt might Self
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Knowing Men
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Libertarian Maintenance
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
JOHN LOCKE

Desire Effort Labor
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Government Lying
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
JOHN LOCKE

Ends Freedom Law
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Errors Neglect
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use

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