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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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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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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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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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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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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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