Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
JOHN LOCKEMemory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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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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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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