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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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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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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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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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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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