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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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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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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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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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