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 LOCKECuriosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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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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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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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 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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Thus 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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