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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

John Locke

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.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
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
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
JOHN LOCKE

Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
JOHN LOCKE

Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKE

Business Philosophy War
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
JOHN LOCKE

Fighting Mean Opponents
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Mind Signification Use
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowledge Philosophical Science
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
JOHN LOCKE

Difficult Imperfection Writing
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
JOHN LOCKE

Liberty Live Men Rules
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Libertarian Maintenance

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

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