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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

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
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
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
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

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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