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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of 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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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there do that read write rise lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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 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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an 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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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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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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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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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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