That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKEChildren should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
More John Locke Quotes
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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.
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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