New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKESince 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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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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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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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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