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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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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it nor be much concerned when he misses it.
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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
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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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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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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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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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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Children generally hate to be idle all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.
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