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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

John Locke

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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
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
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
[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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty

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