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

John Locke

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.
JOHN LOCKE

Marketing Men Use
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKE

Fortitude Philosophical Support
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Gentleman Men Opposites
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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Ideas Mind Signification Use
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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Cat Furnish Men Pole Thinking
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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Doubt might Self
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
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
The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Given Mean Provision
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Judgement Judging Prison
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People

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