Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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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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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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