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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

John Locke

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Littles Men
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE

Allow People Tell
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
JOHN LOCKE

Brother Spurs Teaching

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

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