The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKEWhen the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
More John Locke Quotes
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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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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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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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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Truth 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.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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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 doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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