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" Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. "
John Locke
Him
Love
Present
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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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" I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. "
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" As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. "
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" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "
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" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "
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" I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. "
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" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "
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" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "
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" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. "
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" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "
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" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "
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" All wealth is the product of labor. "
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" The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "
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" The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. "
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Knowledge
" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "
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" A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. "
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Mind
" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "
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" The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. "
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" Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "
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Trip
Small
" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "
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" All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. "
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" Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. "
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" Where there is no property there is no injustice. "
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" What worries you, masters you. "
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