Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
JOHN LOCKEFashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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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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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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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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