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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

John Locke

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
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
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt Running Water
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
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
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
JOHN LOCKE

Blessing Children Men
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
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

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