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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
Journalist
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Philosopher
Political Philosopher
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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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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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