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 LOCKEMoral 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.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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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.
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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.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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