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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

John Locke

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
JOHN LOCKE

Fashion Philosophical Riches
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk
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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Community Design Liberty
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
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
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Children Parent Water
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
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
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
JOHN LOCKE

Habit Needs Reason
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Mind Signification Use

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