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.
JOHN LOCKERevolt is the right of the people
More John Locke Quotes
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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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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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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There 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.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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