How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
JOHN LOCKEIn 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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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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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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