Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
JOHN LOCKEBeware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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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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