Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
JOHN LOCKEThus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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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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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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