In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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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 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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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