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
JOHN LOCKEMathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
More John Locke Quotes
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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The 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.
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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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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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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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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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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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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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