As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
JOHN LOCKEHabits 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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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