Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKESo that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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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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[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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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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