He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
JOHN LOCKEIt is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
More John Locke Quotes
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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