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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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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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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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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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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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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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If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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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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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.
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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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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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