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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
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
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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Marketing Men Use
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
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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Balance Men Self
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture

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