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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

John Locke

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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
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
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
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Expression Fashion Suffering

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

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