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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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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.
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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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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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