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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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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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What worries you, masters you.
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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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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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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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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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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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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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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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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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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