The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKEI have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
More John Locke Quotes
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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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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Revolt is the right of the people
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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