It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKEIs it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
More John Locke Quotes
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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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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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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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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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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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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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