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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Cambridgeshire
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there do that read write rise lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
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In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.
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