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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Cambridgeshire
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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 great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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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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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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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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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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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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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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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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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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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