If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
JOHN LOCKEA 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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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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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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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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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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