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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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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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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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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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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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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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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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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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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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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