He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKEAny 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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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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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.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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