How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
More John Locke Quotes
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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