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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

John Locke

Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
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
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
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
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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE

Care Fancy Parent
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Foundation Happiness Liberty
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
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
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
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
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

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

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