Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
JOHN LOCKEWho hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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