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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
Physician
Politician
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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