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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 real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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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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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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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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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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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.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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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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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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