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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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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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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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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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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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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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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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 wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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