We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
JOHN LOCKEThe Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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