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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

~William Godwin

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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

~William Godwin

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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.

~William Godwin

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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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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Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.

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In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain.

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How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

~William Godwin

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Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

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God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 3rd, 1756

Died: April 7th, 1836

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