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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

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
[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
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
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
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
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.
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Balance Integrity Men
Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Evil Karma Men

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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