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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.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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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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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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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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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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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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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
William Godwin
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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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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