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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.

John Locke

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
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
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Children Killing Taught
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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.
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Ends Freedom Law
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Memories Names Science
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice

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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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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