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Children generally hate to be idle all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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What worries you, masters you.
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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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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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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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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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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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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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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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