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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Politician
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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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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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
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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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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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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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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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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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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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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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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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