Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKETill 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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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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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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