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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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Cambridgeshire
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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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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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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
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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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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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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.
William Godwin
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.
William Godwin
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.
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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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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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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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
William Godwin
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.
William Godwin
