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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

John Locke

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Government Libertarian Maintenance
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 spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Common Littles Men
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
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
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
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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Beast Creature Men Rational
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Book Successful Writing
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Brother Spurs Teaching

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