In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKEAn excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
More John Locke Quotes
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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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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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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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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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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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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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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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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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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