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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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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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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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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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'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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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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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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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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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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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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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