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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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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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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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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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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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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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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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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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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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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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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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