Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
JOHN LOCKEHe that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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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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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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