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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
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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Government Libertarian Maintenance
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
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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.
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Common Littles Men
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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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Mind Perfection Practice
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
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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Dream Men Waking
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
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son

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