Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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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 is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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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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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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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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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