Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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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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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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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I 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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