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

John Locke

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Atheism Government Lying
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
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
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.
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Degrees Landed Talk
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
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 great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Age Gretest Mischie World
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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
All wealth is the product of labor.
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Fruit Labor Philosophical Wealth
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison

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