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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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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 practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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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 attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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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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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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