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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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Political Philosopher
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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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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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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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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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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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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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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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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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