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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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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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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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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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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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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