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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it

John Locke

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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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Balance Integrity Men
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Blessing Children Men
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
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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Leisure Recreation Use
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.
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Children Pain Suffering
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision

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