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Man Quotes by John Locke
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- 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.
- Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
- It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
- For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;…
- Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and…
- Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the…
- I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
- Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly…
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