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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

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
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
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
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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Errors Giving Mistakes

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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