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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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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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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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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the 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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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