He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
JOHN LOCKEIn the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
More John Locke Quotes
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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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.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have 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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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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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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