But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
JOHN LOCKEHow long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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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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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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