There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
JOHN LOCKENo man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
More John Locke Quotes
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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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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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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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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