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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.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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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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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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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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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
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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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Power is not happiness.
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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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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In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.
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