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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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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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Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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