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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.

John Locke

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.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Blessing Children Men
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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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Ideas Memories Sight
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Giving Thinking
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
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
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Children Employed Hate Use
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell

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