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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

John Locke

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
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
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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Common Littles Men
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
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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Brother Spurs Teaching
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

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