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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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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.
John Locke Nazareth
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke Nazareth -
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
John Locke Nazareth -
I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
John Locke Nazareth -
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
John Locke Nazareth
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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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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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He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
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If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?
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Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.
John Locke Nazareth -
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke Nazareth
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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
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He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.
John Locke Nazareth -
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke Nazareth -
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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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
John Locke Nazareth
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
John Locke Nazareth -
Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.
John Locke Nazareth