John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ↗

— John Locke

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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

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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. ↗

— John Locke

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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. ↗

— John Locke

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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

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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

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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

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ↗

— John Locke

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