Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKETo be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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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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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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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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