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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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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 necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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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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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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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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 care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
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If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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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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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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