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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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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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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 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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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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