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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

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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Children Killing Taught
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
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
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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
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
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty

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