That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKEThe body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
More John Locke Quotes
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Memory 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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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