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" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "
John Locke
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" I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. "
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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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" Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. "
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" All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. "
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" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "
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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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" 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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" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "
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" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. "
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" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "
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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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" 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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Eyes
Darkness
" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
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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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" New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "
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" To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. "
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" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "
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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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" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "
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" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "
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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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