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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.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
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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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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 dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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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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What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
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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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If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
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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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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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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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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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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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