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.
JOHN LOCKENew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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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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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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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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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.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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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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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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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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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