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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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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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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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