In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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