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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.

John Locke

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
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
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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
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
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
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

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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