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.
JOHN LOCKETill a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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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.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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