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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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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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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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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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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