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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

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
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
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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
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
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
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
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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Atheism Government Lying
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
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
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
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent

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