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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.

John Locke

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.
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Children Giving Thinking
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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Arbitrary Freedom Legislator People War
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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Men Science Truth
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
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
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
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
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Habits 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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Habit Needs Reason
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Cherish Children Curiosity
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation

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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