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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Ch. I (Introduction), §5 (Project Gutenberg #10615)
Our faculties, though limited, are adequate to our needs; it is idle to neglect them because they cannot reach everything.
Citation: "The Candle that is set up in us shines bright enough for all our purposes" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Ch. I (Introduction), §5 (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
