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 LOCKEAn 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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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.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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 cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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