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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.

John Locke

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKE

Cherish Children Curiosity
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Parent Water
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
JOHN LOCKE

Memories Names Science
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
JOHN LOCKE

Evil Karma Men

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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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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