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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

John Locke

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Atheism Credit Reason
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Care Fancy Parent
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
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Get Happiness Health Well
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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Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Ideas Reflection Simple
Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Canceled Force Rights Ties War

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

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