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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

John Locke

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
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
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
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
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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.
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Book Successful Writing
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
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
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
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
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
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
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.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude

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