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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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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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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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