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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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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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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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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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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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What worries you, masters you.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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