The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKEFashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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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 man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have 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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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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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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