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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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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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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
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Study with desire is real activity without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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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 real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive the right in certain cases to do as we list and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.
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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 most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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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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Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
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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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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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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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