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.
JOHN LOCKEA sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
More John Locke Quotes
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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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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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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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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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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