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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

John Locke

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
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
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
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
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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