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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
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
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
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
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Giving Thinking
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
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
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.
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Marketing Men Use
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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