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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Blessing Children Men
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
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

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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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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