The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
JOHN LOCKETruth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
More John Locke Quotes
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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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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