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In the beginning, all the world was America.

John Locke

Patriotic, America, World

Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 5, sec. 49 (1690)

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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

John Locke

Children, Taught, Killing

John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.53

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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

John Locke

Men, Land, Doe

John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

John Locke

Children, Pain, Mind

John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.150

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The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

John Locke

Passion, Giving, Reform

John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

John Locke

Philosophy, Law, Political

John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.45, Springer Science & Business Media

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When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

John Locke

Philosophy, Simple, Men

John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.188

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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

John Locke

Christian, War, Men

John Locke (1765). “Letters Concerning Toleration: By Iohn Locke”, p.33

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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

John Locke

Exercise, Skills, Giving

John Locke (1812). “Essay on human understanding concluded. Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of 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”, p.195

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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

John Locke

Book, Writing, Successful

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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

John Locke

Art, Pain, Distance

John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.128

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Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

John Locke

Revenge, Anger, Mind

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.148

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Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

John Locke

Self, Stupidity, Attention

John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.

John Locke

Wise, Nature, Mean

John Locke (1815). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.96

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As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.

John Locke

Exercise, Practice, Mind

John Locke (1854). “Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions”, p.489

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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

Men, Littles, Information

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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

John Locke

Degrees, Doe, Should

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Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.

John Locke

Children, Philosophical, Reading

"Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 81), 1693.

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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

John Locke

Children, Curiosity, Cherish

John Locke (1725). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eighth edition”, p.148

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Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

John Locke

Moving, Together, Variables

John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.132

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Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

John Locke

Book, Reading, Mind

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If, then, there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of Being it must be. And to that it is very obvious to Reason, that it must necessarily be a cogitative Being. For it is as impossible to conceive that ever bare incogitative Matter should produce a thinking intelligent Being, as that nothing should of itself produce Matter.

John Locke

Intelligent, Thinking, Matter

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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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

John Locke

Children, Hate, Use

John Locke (1888*). “Some thoughts on education and an essay on the consequences of the lowering of interest and raising the value of money”

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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

John Locke

Men, Thinking, Blood

John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.82, Broadview Press

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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.

John Locke

Real, Simple, Views

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