He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKEThere are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
More John Locke Quotes
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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