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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.

John Locke

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
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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?
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt Running Water
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
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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Liberty Live Men Rules
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy

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