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From the very first instances of perception, some things are grateful and others unwelcome to us; some things we incline to, and others we fly (John Locke Quotes)
In this retirement of the mind from the senses, it retains a yet more incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming (John Locke Quotes)
Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common sense (John Locke Quotes)
I would not have children much beaten for their faults, because I would not have them think bodily pain the greatest punishment (John Locke Quotes)
We are taught to clothe our minds, as we do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue; and it is accounted fantastical or something worse, not to do so (John Locke Quotes)
God has scattered several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all our thoughts (John Locke Quotes)
He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation (John Locke Quotes)
Habits working more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed (John Locke Quotes)
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty (John Locke Quotes)
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the moral rectitude or turpitude of our own actions (John Locke Quotes)
God, having designed man for a sociable creature, furnished him with language, which was to be the instrument and cementer of society (John Locke Quotes)
The wisdom and goodness of the maker plainly appears in the parts of this stupendous fabric, and the several degrees and ranks of creatures in it (John Locke Quotes)
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge (John Locke Quotes)
Whatsoever the mind perceives of itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call an idea (John Locke Quotes)
It is not possible now to keep a young gentleman from vice by a total ignorance of it, unless you will all his life mew him up in a closet and never let him go into company (John Locke Quotes)
Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not (John Locke Quotes)
Hope is that pleasure of the mind which every one finds in himself upon the thought of a probable future enjoyment of a thing which is apt to delight him (John Locke Quotes)
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight (John Locke Quotes)
He that from childhood has made rising betimes familiar to him will not waste the best part of his life in drowsiness (John Locke Quotes)
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected (John Locke Quotes)
It is difficult to instruct children because of their natural inattention; the true mode, of course, is to first make our modes interesting to them (John Locke Quotes)
Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to see our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity (John Locke Quotes)
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors (John Locke Quotes)
If authors cannot be prevailed upon to keep close to truth and instruction, by unvaried terms, and plain, unsophisticated argument, yet it concerns readers not to be imposed on (John Locke Quotes)
All virtue lies in a power of denying our own desires where reason does not authorize them (John Locke Quotes)
Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage (John Locke Quotes)
If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty (John Locke Quotes)
As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play upon them, and so to be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time (John Locke Quotes)
If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison (John Locke Quotes)
It has God for it's author, salvation for it's end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for it's matter: it is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting (John Locke Quotes)