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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.

John Locke

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
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
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
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
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
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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.
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Blessing Children Men
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason

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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