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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.

John Locke

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Church Men
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Credit Reason
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son
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
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
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
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.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKE

Freedom Names Play
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men

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