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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke

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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Habit Needs Reason
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Children Employed Hate Use
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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Dream Men Waking
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Ideas Mind Signification Use
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth

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