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" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "
John Locke
Will
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Mark
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" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "
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" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "
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" All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. "
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" A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. "
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" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "
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" Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. "
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" As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. "
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" To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. "
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" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "
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" I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. "
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" I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. "
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" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "
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" 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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" Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. "
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Day
Every Day
" All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. "
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" The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. "
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Capable
" Where there is no property there is no injustice. "
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" Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. "
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Parents
" Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "
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" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "
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" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "
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" What worries you, masters you. "
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" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "
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" All wealth is the product of labor. "
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Labor
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" There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. "
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" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "
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" The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. "
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" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "
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