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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

John Locke

In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
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
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
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
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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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Habit Needs Reason
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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.
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Balance Law Punishment
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
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
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
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
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.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
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

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

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