John Locke Quotes
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds…
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the…
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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…
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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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…
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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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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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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What worries you, masters you.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable…
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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