Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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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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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.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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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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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 sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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