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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
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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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
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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Doubt might Self
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

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