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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
Philosopher
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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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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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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Justice and truth are the common ties of society
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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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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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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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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