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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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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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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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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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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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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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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.
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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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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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