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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

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKE

Divinity Pattern Portraiture
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
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
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
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
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
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth

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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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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