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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Cambridgeshire
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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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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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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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
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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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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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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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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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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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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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