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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKE

Book Men Thinking
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
JOHN LOCKE

Order Respect Son
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
JOHN LOCKE

Father Liberty Son
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKE

Dream Philosophical Reflection
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
JOHN LOCKE

Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKE

Divinity Pattern Portraiture
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May

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