Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKE[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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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.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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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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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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