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.
JOHN LOCKEThere is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
More John Locke Quotes
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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