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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
John Locke
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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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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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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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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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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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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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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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Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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