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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

John Locke

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
JOHN LOCKE

Firsts Intellect Senses
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
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
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
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
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Kings Men Names
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Doubt Running Water
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Giving Thinking
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

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

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