He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
JOHN LOCKEIt is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
More John Locke Quotes
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Tis 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.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Man 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.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Beware 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.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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