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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.

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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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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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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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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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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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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Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
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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 diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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