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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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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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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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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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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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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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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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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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