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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

John Locke

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
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 end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
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
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
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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Atheism Credit Reason
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May

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