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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

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
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
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
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
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
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
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Canceled Force Rights Ties War

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