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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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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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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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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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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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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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 there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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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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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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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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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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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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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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