We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only and not for things themselves.
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
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Amit Ray
A word and everything is saved. A word and all is lost.
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Anonymous
Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
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Joanna Baillie
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
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Edmund Burke
Words writ in waters.
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George Chapman
More Quotes By John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
