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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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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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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
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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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What worries you, masters you.
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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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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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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