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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

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Church Men
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Parent Water
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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKE

Ends Government Philosophical
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Mind Signification Use
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Adherence Mind Prejudice
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKE

Example Imitation
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
JOHN LOCKE

Argument Command Penalties
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical

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