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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

John Locke

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Children Employed Hate Use
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth
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
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Awkward Easy Imitation
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
In the beginning, all the world was America.
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America Patriotic World
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
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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Children Parent Water
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
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy

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