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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

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Book Successful Writing
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
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
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
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
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Common Littles Men
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection

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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