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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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 ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.
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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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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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What worries you, masters you.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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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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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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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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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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