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“As
people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
-John
Locke
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“The only defence against the world
is a thorough knowledge of it.”
- John Locke |
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“There are a thousand ways to Wealth,
but only one way to Heaven.”
- John Locke |
“I have always thought the actions of
men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
- John Locke |
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with
materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
- John Locke |
“We are like chameleons; we take our
hue and the colour of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
- John Locke |
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“To love truth for truth's sake is
the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of
all other virtues.”
- John Locke |
“Revolt is the right of the people”
- John Locke |
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“How long have you been holding those
words in your head, hoping to use them?”
- John Locke |
“Parents wonder why the streams are
bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”
- John Locke |
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond
his experience.”
- John Locke |
“Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
- John Locke |
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“Being all equal and independent, no
one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
- John Locke |
“There is frequently more to be learned
from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
- John Locke |
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“Success in fighting means not coming
at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.”
- John Locke, |
“One unerring mark of the love of
truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the
proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
- John Locke |
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“Our Business here is not to know all
things, but those which concern our conduct.”
- John Locke |
“Reverie is when ideas float in our
mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
- John Locke |
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“To prejudge other men's notions
before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out
our own eyes.”
- John Locke |
“The only fence against the world is a
thorough knowledge of it.”
- John Locke |
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“All wealth is the product of labour.”
- John Locke |
“Fortitude is the guard and support
of the other virtues.”
- John Locke |
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“In transgressing the law of nature,
the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and
common equity"
- John Locke |
“I close my eyes, take a deep breath,
and let it out completely, along with my soul.”
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“New opinions are always suspected,
and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not
common.”
- John Locke |
“I have
always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
-John
Locke
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“What
worries you, masters you.”
-John
Locke
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“No man's
knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
-John
Locke
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“Where
there is no property there is no injustice.”
-John
Locke
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“Government
has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
-John
Locke
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“Every
man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but
himself.”
-John
Locke
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“Fortitude
is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
-John
Locke
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“I have
spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
-John
Locke
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“The
dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the
prospect of good.”
-John
Locke
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“There
cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his
discourse.”
-John
Locke
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“New
opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason
but because they are not already common.”
-John
Locke
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“The
discipline of desire is the background of character.”
-John
Locke
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“The only
fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
-John
Locke
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“The
reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
-John
Locke
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“It is easier
for a tutor to command than to teach.”
-John
Locke
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