In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKEI 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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