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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

John Locke

Men, Misery

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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

John Locke

Children, Blessing, Men

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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

John Locke

Mistake, Thinking, Hands

John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.400, Cambridge University Press

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

Self Esteem, Philosophical, Men

John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.289, CUP Archive

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Revolt is the right of the people

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People, Revolt

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

Inspirational, Education, Reading

"The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

Philosophical, Fruit Of Labor, Wealth

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Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

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Biblical, Trying, All Things

John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

Philosophical, Knowledge, Science

'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 19

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

Children, Philosophical, Men

John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke

Philosophical, Government, Ends

1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

John Locke

Government, Law, People

John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.311

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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.

John Locke

Men, Rules To Live By, Liberty

1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

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Long, Use

Eric Van Lustbader, Alex Churton, John Locke (2013). “3 Great Thrillers: First Daughter, The Babylon Gene, Lethal People”, p.447, Head of Zeus

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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The 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.

John Locke

Children, Silly, Curiosity

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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.

John Locke

Love, Pregnancy, Might

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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

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Mind, Adherence, Prejudice

John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.560

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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

John Locke

Firsts, Intellect, Senses

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Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

Education, Knowledge, Math

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

John Locke

Education, Wisdom, Philosophical

Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 88 (1693)

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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Business, Philosophy, War

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

John Locke

Argument, Penalties, Command

John Locke (1867). “Letters on Toleration”, p.7

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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

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Taken, Individual, Unlawful

John Locke (2016). “Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

John Locke

Faith, Inspiration, What If

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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

John Locke

Men, Doe, He Man

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.537

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Born: August 29, 1632
Died: October 28, 1704
Occupation: Philosopher
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