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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

John Locke

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Memories Names Science
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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Common Littles Men
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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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Book Men Thinking
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
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Marketing Men Use
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
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
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Errors Giving Mistakes

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