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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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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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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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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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What worries you, masters you.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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