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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

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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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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
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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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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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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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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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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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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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