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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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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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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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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
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A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.
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