"The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation."
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"How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them."
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"It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything."
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"What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us."
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"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
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"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
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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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"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge."
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"To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man."
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"An 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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"If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands."
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"Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for."
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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
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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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"Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making."
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"The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time."
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"The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be."
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"In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity."
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"In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all."
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"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
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