Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKEI 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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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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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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Revolt is the right of the people
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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