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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
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If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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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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