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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

Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
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
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
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills

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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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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