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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

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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Evil Karma Men
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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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Book Men Thinking
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
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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Children Parent Water
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.
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Children Giving Thinking
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War
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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Balance Men Self
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches

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