Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God....John Locke
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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world and, it lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke
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