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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

John Locke

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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Children Parent Water
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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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Ideas Memories Sight
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
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
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men

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