Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKEWho 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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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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