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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
Journalist
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Political Philosopher
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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.
William Godwin
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 most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
William Godwin
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
William Godwin
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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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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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
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.
William Godwin
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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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
William Godwin
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
William Godwin
