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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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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
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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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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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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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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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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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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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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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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.
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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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To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
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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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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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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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Power is not happiness.
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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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