I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
JOHN LOCKEIt is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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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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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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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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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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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