The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
JOHN LOCKEThe greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
More John Locke Quotes
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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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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