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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.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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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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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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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
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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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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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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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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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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
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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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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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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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