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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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

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