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Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man Philosophy
Every time reason stands against the human, the human will stand against the reason.
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Human Philosophy Reason
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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Crime Error Force Passion Reason Understand
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

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