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.
JOHN LOCKEMoral 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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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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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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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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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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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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