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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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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
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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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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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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
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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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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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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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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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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 most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
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Power is not happiness.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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