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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

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
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Book Successful Writing
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
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
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Age Gretest Mischie World
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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
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
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
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
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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
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
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules

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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