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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

John Locke

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Credit Reason
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
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
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Memories Names Science
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
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
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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Blessing Children Men
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
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.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder

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