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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

John Locke

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKE

Communication Current Rude
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE

Ignorance Use Wonder
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Chameleon Children Wonder
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
JOHN LOCKE

Father Liberty Son
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
JOHN LOCKE

Liberty Live Men Rules
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
JOHN LOCKE

Adherence Mind Prejudice
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKE

Anyone Country People Tell
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKE

Mind Perfection Practice
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
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
JOHN LOCKE

Government Long Thinking

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

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