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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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Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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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 people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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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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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
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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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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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 trip.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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Understanding like the eye whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
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