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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

John Locke

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
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.
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Ends Freedom Law
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
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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Book Men Thinking
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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.
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Doubt might Self
In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKE

America Patriotic World

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