Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
JOHN LOCKETo 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Any 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.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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