John Locke

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• Quote 2947

  The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have

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• Quote 2946

  The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

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• Quote 2945

  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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• Quote 2944

  There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse

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• Quote 2943

  Logic is the anatomy of thought

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• Quote 2942

  No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

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• Quote 2941

  Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

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• Quote 2940

  Wherever law ends, tyranny begins

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• Quote 2939

  The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate

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• Quote 2938

  The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation

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• Quote 2937

  Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

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• Quote 2936

  There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

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• Quote 2935

  Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses

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• Quote 2934

  Where there is no property there is no injustice

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• Quote 2933

  Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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• Quote 2932

  Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time

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• Quote 2931

  If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender

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• Quote 2930

  All wealth is the product of labor.

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• Quote 2929

  It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth

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• Quote 2928

  To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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• Quote 2927

  All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it

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• Quote 2926

  An 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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• Quote 2925

  But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

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• Quote 2924

  The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it

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• Quote 2923

  I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment

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