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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

John Locke

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
JOHN LOCKE

Knowing Men Reading
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
JOHN LOCKE

Anyone Country People Tell
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Blessing Children Men
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
JOHN LOCKE

Ideas Philosophical Philosophy
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 LOCKE

Kings Men Names
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKE

Appetite Children Curiosity
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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Ignorance Knowing Men
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Desire Effort Labor
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKE

Book Men Thinking
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
JOHN LOCKE

Doctrine Giving Way
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
JOHN LOCKE

Delight Ideas Reflecting Upon
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Church Men
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Canceled Force Rights Ties War
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
JOHN LOCKE

Holding Long Use
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
JOHN LOCKE

Eye Grateful Light

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