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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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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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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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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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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
William Godwin
Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
William Godwin
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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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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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
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 cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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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