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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
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
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
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
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
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
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
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
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking

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