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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

John Locke

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
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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Children Killing Taught
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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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Matter Religion Use
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

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