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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Cambridgeshire
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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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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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
William Godwin
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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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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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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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