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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
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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Book Successful Writing
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
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
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
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
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
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
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
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time

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