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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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What worries you, masters you.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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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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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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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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