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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

John Locke

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
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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Children Parent Water
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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Depth Ocean Serendipity
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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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Ideas Reflection Simple
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
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
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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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Criminal Men War

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