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.
JOHN LOCKEWhere there is no desire, there will be no industry.
More John Locke Quotes
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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.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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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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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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