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“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
-- John Locke
#Funny #Money #Shoes
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
-- John Locke
#Inspirational #Motivational #Education
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“What worries you, masters you.”
-- John Locke
#Inspirational #Life #Courage
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“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
-- John Locke
#Inspirational #Philosophical #Walking Away
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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
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“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
-- John Locke
#Business #War #Creativity
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
-- John Locke
#Motivational #Honesty #Integrity
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“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
-- John Locke
#Teaching #Easier #Command
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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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“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
-- John Locke
#Self Esteem #Philosophical #Men
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“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
-- John Locke
#Peace #War #Independent
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“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.”
-- John Locke
#Freedom #Law #Ends
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“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Justice #Injustice
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“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
-- John Locke
#Long #Use
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“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Character #Discipline
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“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
-- John Locke
#Education #Knowledge #Two
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Knowledge #Science
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“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Government #Ends
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“All wealth is the product of labor.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Wealth #Prosperity
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“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
-- John Locke
#Eye #Men #Darkness
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“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
-- John Locke
#Ocean #Serendipity #Sailor
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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 #Men #Blessing
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“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
-- John Locke
#Dream #Philosophical #Use
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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.”
-- John Locke
#War #Passion #Men
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“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
-- John Locke
#Fashion #Philosophical #Riches
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“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
-- John Locke
#Philosophical #Parenting #Bitterness
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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.”
-- John Locke
#Integrity #Men #Balance
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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
-- John Locke
#Inspirational #Education #Reading
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“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
-- John Locke
#Character #Color #Hue
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“Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”
-- John Locke
#Concern
