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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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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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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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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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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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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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Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
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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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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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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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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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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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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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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