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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.

John Locke

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
JOHN LOCKE

Argument Command Penalties
All wealth is the product of labor.
JOHN LOCKE

Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt Running Water
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKE

Common Littles Men
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
JOHN LOCKE

Diamond Math Proof
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Pain Suffering
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
JOHN LOCKE

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

Education Philosophical Wisdom
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Doubt might Self
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
JOHN LOCKE

Beast Creature Men Rational
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKE

Dream Philosophical Reflection
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Credit Reason
[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.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE

Eye Grateful Light
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Reflection Simple

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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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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