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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
Writer
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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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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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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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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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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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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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