It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKEThere cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
More John Locke Quotes
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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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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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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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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