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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

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Knowing Men Reading
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Feet Men Prayer Saw Time
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
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 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
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
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
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
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
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science

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

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