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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

John Locke

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
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
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
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
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
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
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
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
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
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
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
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

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