"If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender."
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"The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea."
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"Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates."
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"Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change."
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"When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property."
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"This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!"
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"If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love."
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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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"Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer."
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"I pretend not to teach, but to inquire."
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"Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries."
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"Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule."
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"These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings."
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"The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made."
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"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"
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"Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd."
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"Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit."
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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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"Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant."
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"The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate."
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