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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.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there do that read write rise lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
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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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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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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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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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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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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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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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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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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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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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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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