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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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