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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

John Locke

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
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
[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
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Book Successful Writing
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
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
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
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
JOHN LOCKE

Amendment Liberty Reason Second

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