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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

John Locke

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

Education Philosophical Wisdom
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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Children Killing Taught
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
[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 body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Matter Religion Use
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
JOHN LOCKE

Errors Giving Mistakes
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing

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