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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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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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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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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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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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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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A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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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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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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
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