There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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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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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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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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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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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