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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

John Locke

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

Habit Needs Reason
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
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
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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
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.
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Love might Pregnancy
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
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
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE

Care Fancy Parent

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