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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it nor be much concerned when he misses it.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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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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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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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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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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