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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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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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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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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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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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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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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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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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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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He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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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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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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