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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

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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Chameleon Children Wonder
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
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
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Children Men Philosophical
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Divinity Pattern Portraiture
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Half Moments Trying
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Men Science Truth
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Ends Government Philosophical
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
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Children Employed Hate Use
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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Amendment Liberty Reason Second
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support

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