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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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Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
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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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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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Obey this may be right but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.
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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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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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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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Power is not happiness.
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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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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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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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