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.
JOHN LOCKEFortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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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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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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