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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.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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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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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
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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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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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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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Power is not happiness.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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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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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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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.
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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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