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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
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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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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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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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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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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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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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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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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.
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