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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 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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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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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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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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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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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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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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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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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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