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

John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Evil Karma Men
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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKE

Dream Philosophical Reflection
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk
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.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
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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Children Employed Hate Use
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
JOHN LOCKE

Half Moments Trying
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Use Wonder
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKE

Example Imitation
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
JOHN LOCKE

Age Gretest Mischie World
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading

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