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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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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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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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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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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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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 cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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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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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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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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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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