The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKEStruggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
More John Locke Quotes
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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