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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.

John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Men Self
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
JOHN LOCKE

Inspirational Philosophical Taken
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
JOHN LOCKE

Argument Command Penalties
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKE

Dark Light Player
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowledge Philosophical Science
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
JOHN LOCKE

Canceled Force Rights Ties War
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Management Movement Time
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
JOHN LOCKE

Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
JOHN LOCKE

Memories Names Science
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
JOHN LOCKE

Gentleman Men Opposites

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