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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.

John Locke

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Children Killing Taught
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fashion Philosophical Riches
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 cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision

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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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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