Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKEWho are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
More John Locke Quotes
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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