How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
JOHN LOCKEThus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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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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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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