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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

John Locke

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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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Gentleman Men Opposites
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
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules
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
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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
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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Degrees Landed Talk
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
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
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
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
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
[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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Blood Men Thinking
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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Book Successful Writing

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