Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKEThe 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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