It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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What worries you, masters you.John Locke
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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Truth, then, seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
John Locke
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu.
John Locke
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.
John Locke
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