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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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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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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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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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 least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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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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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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