Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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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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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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