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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

John Locke

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKE

Example Imitation
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Ignorance Knowing Men
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
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
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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Integrity Men
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
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowledge Philosophical Science

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