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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

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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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Order Respect Son
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
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
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit 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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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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