In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKESince 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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[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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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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