Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKETis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
More John Locke Quotes
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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