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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

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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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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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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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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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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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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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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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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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