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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

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
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
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
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
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
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time

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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