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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

John Locke

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
JOHN LOCKE

Expression Fashion Suffering
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Oppression People
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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
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
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Leisure Recreation Use
[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.
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Blood Men Thinking
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
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
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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Cultivated Labour Land Men Property
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

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