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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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What worries you, masters you.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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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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'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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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Children generally hate to be idle all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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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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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Understanding like the eye whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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