Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKENothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
More John Locke Quotes
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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