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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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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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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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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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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 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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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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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 easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
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