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

John Locke

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
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Expression Fashion Suffering
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
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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties

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