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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
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Philosopher
Political Philosopher
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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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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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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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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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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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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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