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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

John Locke

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
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
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
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
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
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
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

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