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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

John Locke

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

Memories Names Science
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Balance Men Self
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
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
JOHN LOCKE

Errors Giving Mistakes
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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Order Respect Son
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men Thinking
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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Degrees Landed Talk
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
JOHN LOCKE

Community Design Liberty

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

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