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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

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
JOHN LOCKE

Ends Freedom Law
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Kings Men Names
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKE

Awkward Easy Imitation
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKE

Fortitude Philosophical Support
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
JOHN LOCKE

Diamond Math Proof
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Marketing Men Use
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
JOHN LOCKE

Long Philosophical World
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Mind Signification Use
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
JOHN LOCKE

Children Employed Hate Use
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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.

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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.

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