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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

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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Children Parent Water
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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
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
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Community Design Liberty
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
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
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
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

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