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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.

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
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Balance Law Punishment
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Book Successful Writing
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
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Depth Ocean Serendipity
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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Differences Men Thinking
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
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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
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
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Ignorance Use Wonder

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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