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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
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
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder

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