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.
JOHN LOCKEWhenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Till 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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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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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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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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