In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKEIn my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
More John Locke Quotes
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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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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Revolt is the right of the people
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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When 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.
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