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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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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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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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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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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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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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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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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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