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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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Invisible
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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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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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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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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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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Power is not happiness.
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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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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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 subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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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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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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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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