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

John Locke

Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
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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Balance Integrity Men
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
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 body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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

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