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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

John Locke

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
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Mind Perfection Practice
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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Doctrine Giving Way
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Exercise Giving Skills
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
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time

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