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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

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKE

Communication Current Rude
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
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
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
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
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Long Thinking
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
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

Ideas Memories Sight
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
JOHN LOCKE

Feet Men Prayer Saw Time

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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