So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
JOHN LOCKEThings of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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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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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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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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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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 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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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