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.
JOHN LOCKENot time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
More John Locke Quotes
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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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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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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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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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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