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 LOCKEChildren should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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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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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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