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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
Philosopher
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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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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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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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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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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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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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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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