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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.

John Locke

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Mind Signification Use
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
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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Ends Freedom Law
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Business Philosophy War
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
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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Awkward Easy Imitation
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
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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Dream Philosophical Reflection
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Art Great Time Littles Undertake
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
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.
JOHN LOCKE

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