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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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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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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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