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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

John Locke

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE

Eye Grateful Light
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
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
JOHN LOCKE

Dream Philosophical Reflection
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
JOHN LOCKE

Order Respect Son
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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Atheism Government Lying
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
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
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
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Difficult Imperfection Writing
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Killing Taught

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