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Logic is the anatomy of thought.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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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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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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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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Men in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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