If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
JOHN LOCKEAs much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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