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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

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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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Struggle
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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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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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 make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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