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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

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKE

Freedom Names Play
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.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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
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
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
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men 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
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Blessing Children Men
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

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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