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All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

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
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
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
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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Government Libertarian Maintenance
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
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
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
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
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

All wealth is the product of labor.

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