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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF William Godwin |
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Quotes By author - Starting with W - William Godwin
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There are 52 quotes for the author William Godwin
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To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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Trust [the student] in a certain degree with himself. Suffer him in some instances to select his own course of reading. There is danger that there should be something to studied and monotonous in the selection we should make for him. Suffer him to wander through the wilds of literature.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
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Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him.
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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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