It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
JOHN LOCKEWhoever 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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It 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.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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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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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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