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• The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

  John Locke

  Art, Littles, Great Art

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• Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

  John Locke

  Mean, Fighting, Opponents

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• Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

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  Judging, Lasts, Reason

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.538

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• Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

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  Effort, Desire, Labor

  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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• Don't tell me what I can't do!

  John Locke

  I Can

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

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  People, Oppression, One Thing

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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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.

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  Truth, Honesty, Perfection

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.3064, Delphi Classics

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• When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

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  Inspirational, Inspirational Success, Hope Of Success

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.3

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

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  Fashion, Philosophical, Riches

  John Locke (1823). “The Works of John Locke”, p.59

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• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Gold

  John Locke (1819). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.314

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• Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.

  John Locke

  War, Rights, Ties

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

  John Locke

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  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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• Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

  John Locke

  Atheism, Credit, Reason

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

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• ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 9, sec. 124 (1690)

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• We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

  John Locke

  Children, Wonder, Chameleon

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education". Book by John Locke, 1693.

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• The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

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  Believe, Knows

  John Locke (1958). “The Reasonableness of Christianity: With A Discourse of Miracles, and Part of A Third Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.66, Stanford University Press

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• The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

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  People, Body, May

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Teaching, Easier

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.64

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• He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

  John Locke

  Use, Understood

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.371

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• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

  John Locke

  Men, Reason Why, Preservation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.377

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• Justice and truth are the common ties of society

  John Locke

  Ties, Justice, Society

  John Locke (1828). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works”, p.35

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