Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
JOHN LOCKECuriosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
More John Locke Quotes
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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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.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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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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