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74 Quotes by John Locke

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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to…
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and…
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for…
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around…
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause…
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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