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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
Journalist
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Philosopher
Political Philosopher
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
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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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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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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.
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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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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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 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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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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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 lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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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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