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 LOCKEIn the beginning, all the world was America.
More John Locke Quotes
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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.
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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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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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