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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

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
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
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
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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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon

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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