The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
JOHN LOCKEWe 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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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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.
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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