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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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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Understanding like the eye whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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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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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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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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