There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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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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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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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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