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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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 lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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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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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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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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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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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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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
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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 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.... 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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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
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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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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
William Godwin
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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