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All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
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
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
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
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light

All wealth is the product of labor.

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