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William Godwin Quotes
«We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.»
Author: William Godwin
«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.»
«The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.»
Author: William Godwin
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riper
«The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.»
«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.»
«The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.»
Author: William Godwin
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diligent
«Liberty is one of the best of all sublunary advantages. I would willingly therefore communicate knowledge, without infringing, or with as little possible violence to, the volition and individual judgment of the person to be instructed.»
«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.»
Author: William Godwin
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«Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.»
Author: William Godwin
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semblance
«They held it their duty to live but for their country.»
Author: William Godwin