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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKE

Ends Government Philosophical
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
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
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
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
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
[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
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well

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