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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
[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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Book Successful Writing
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science

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