New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKEWho 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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