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

John Locke

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
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
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Brother Spurs Teaching
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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Children Killing Taught
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Children Giving Thinking
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Individual Taken Unlawful
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Long Philosophical World
If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Dream Men Waking
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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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Order Respect Son
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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Criminal Men War
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.
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Inspirational Philosophical Taken
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
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

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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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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