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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.

John Locke

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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 greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
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
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
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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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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