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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

John Locke

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKE

Leisure Recreation Use
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKE

Get Happiness Health Well
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

Common Littles Men
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKE

Art Great Time Littles Undertake
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
JOHN LOCKE

Positive Things Shadow
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
JOHN LOCKE

Diamond Math Proof
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
JOHN LOCKE

Argument Command Penalties
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
JOHN LOCKE

Men Science Truth
Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
JOHN LOCKE

Allow People Tell
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Independent Thinking
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
JOHN LOCKE

Dark Light Player
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKE

Anyone Country People Tell
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
JOHN LOCKE

Foundation Happiness Liberty
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
JOHN LOCKE

Father Liberty Son
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

Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk

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