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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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