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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

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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Holding Long Use
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
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
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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Beast Creature Men Rational
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fortitude Philosophical Support
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Diamond Math Proof
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
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
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
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
[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

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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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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