As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
JOHN LOCKEThe great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
More John Locke Quotes
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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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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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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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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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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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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