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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

John Locke

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Men Self
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
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
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
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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Differences Men Thinking
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use

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