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

John Locke

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Father Liberty Son
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
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
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
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
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
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
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
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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational

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