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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

John Locke

Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
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
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
JOHN LOCKE

Diamond Math Proof

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