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.
JOHN LOCKEI 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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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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?
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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