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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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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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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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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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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
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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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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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