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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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Cambridgeshire
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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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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.
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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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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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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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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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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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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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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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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