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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
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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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
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
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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

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