There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKEChildren 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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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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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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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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