In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKEIn the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKEA man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
JOHN LOCKEThe great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKEAffectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKEThe only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKEBeware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
JOHN LOCKEThe end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
JOHN LOCKEGovernment has no other end, but the preservation of property.
JOHN LOCKEMan is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKEAn excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
JOHN LOCKEChildren generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKERevolt is the right of the people
JOHN LOCKEWho are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKEThis 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.
JOHN LOCKENo man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE