"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

Locke, John · Desire · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10612">The discipline of desire is the background of character..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/desire/">Desire</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11967">The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13391">No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/experience/">Experience</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14487">Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/fashion/">Fashion</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man."

Locke, John · Government · 1 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17653">Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/government/">Government</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17654">Government has no other end, but the preservation of property..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/government/">Government</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18183">Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/habit/">Habit</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19689">Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/humankind/">Humankind</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20911">We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/influence/">Influence</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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"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 speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge."

Locke, John · Knowledge · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22194">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 speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4463">Locke, John</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/knowledge/">Knowledge</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post this quote to your blog or social site
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