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

John Locke

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Children Killing Taught
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
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Allow People Tell
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
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Ends Freedom Law
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
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
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Doubt might Self
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
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
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
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

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