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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

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
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Expression Fashion Suffering
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Children Curiosity Silly
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Education Philosophical Wisdom
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
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Liberty Live Men Rules
[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
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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