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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

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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Brother Spurs Teaching
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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.
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Memories Names Science
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
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.
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Children Pain Suffering
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom

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