Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
JOHN LOCKEThe 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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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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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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