There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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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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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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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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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