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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.

John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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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Given Mean Provision
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
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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Children Killing Taught

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