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.
JOHN LOCKEAs 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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Thus 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.
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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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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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