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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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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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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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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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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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