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William Godwin quotes: They held it their duty to live but for their country. They held it their duty to live but for their country.
William Godwin quotes: If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.
William Godwin quotes: Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
William Godwin quotes: God himself has no right to be a tyrant. God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin quotes: The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin quotes: Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble. Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
William Godwin quotes: Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
William Godwin quotes: What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin quotes: 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. 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.
William Godwin quotes: Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
William Godwin quotes: Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
William Godwin quotes: The wise man is satisfied with nothing. The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
William Godwin quotes: The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin quotes: Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all. Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
William Godwin quotes: To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
William Godwin quotes: The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin quotes: Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides. Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
William Godwin quotes: Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
William Godwin quotes: There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
William Godwin quotes: We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin quotes: Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness. Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
William Godwin quotes: Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
William Godwin quotes: Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin quotes: What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin quotes: If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
William Godwin quotes: There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin quotes: In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin quotes: Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
William Godwin quotes: He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
William Godwin quotes: The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
William Godwin quotes: Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
William Godwin quotes: If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book, If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,
William Godwin quotes: To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
William Godwin quotes: Power is not happiness. Power is not happiness.
William Godwin quotes: Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
William Godwin quotes: Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
William Godwin quotes: Justice is the sum of all moral duty. Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
William Godwin quotes: There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
William Godwin quotes: The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin quotes: Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
William Godwin quotes: The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
William Godwin quotes: Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
William Godwin quotes: Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
William Godwin quotes: He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
William Godwin quotes: The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin quotes: Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin quotes: The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
William Godwin quotes: 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. 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.
William Godwin quotes: Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin quotes: We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
William Godwin quotes: But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
William Godwin quotes: It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

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