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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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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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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 can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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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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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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 subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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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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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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