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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

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
JOHN LOCKE

Individual Taken Unlawful
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Curiosity Silly
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Use Wonder
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
All wealth is the product of labor.
JOHN LOCKE

Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
JOHN LOCKE

Father Liberty Son
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
JOHN LOCKE

Fighting Mean Opponents
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.
JOHN LOCKE

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

Dream Philosophical Reflection
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowledge Philosophical Science
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
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
JOHN LOCKE

Exercise Giving Skills
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE

Eye Grateful Light
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
JOHN LOCKE

Reason Titles Two

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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