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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

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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Age Gretest Mischie World
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Body May People
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Firsts Intellect Senses
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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Brother Spurs Teaching
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Habit Needs Reason
In 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.
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Book Successful Writing
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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Lying Men Procure Truth
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
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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Atheism Government Lying
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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Book Men Thinking
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Love might Pregnancy
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Faith Inspiration Reason
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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Knowing Men Reading
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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Ideas Mind Signification Use

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