How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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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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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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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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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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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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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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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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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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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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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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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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