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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
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I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought.
By John Locke
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
By John Locke
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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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.
By John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world
By John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
By John Locke
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
By John Locke
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
By John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
By John Locke
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; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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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.
By John Locke