The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
JOHN LOCKEBeware 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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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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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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