John Locke

“What’s that?” “You”

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All wealth is the product of labor.

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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

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Revolt is the right of the people

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“Beasts abstract not.”

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What worries you, masters you.

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Logic is the anatomy of thought

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“Kimberly. I could”

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

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In the beginning, all the world was America.

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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his…

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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

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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,…

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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and…

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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the…

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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds…

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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about…

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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are…

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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste…

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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…

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Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men…

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“God gave the World to Men in Common; But since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniencies of…

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Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs,…

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It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he…

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When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and…

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It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not…

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The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who…

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A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask…

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Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that…

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