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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Men in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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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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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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