Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
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