Maxioms by John Locke
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of read more
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.
O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
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O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable read more
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.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
