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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

John Locke

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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
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
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
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
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
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKE

Oppression People

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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