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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.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
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
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy

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