We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
JOHN LOCKEIt is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
More John Locke Quotes
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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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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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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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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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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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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