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The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

Quote by William Falconer about consequences, affair, country

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Quote by William Falconer about simplicity, fear, hope, nature

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Quote by William Godwin about conscience

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Quote by William Godwin about trains, education, thinking

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

Quote by William Godwin about danger, youth

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Quote by William Godwin about rightness, man, nature

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

Quote by William Godwin about common sense, sense

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Quote by William Godwin about rightness, god

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

Quote by William Godwin about education

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Quote by William Godwin about duty, liberty, life, rightness, man

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Quote by William Godwin

How can any one have genuine happiness, unless in proportion as he looks round, and, behold, every thing is very good?

Quote by William Godwin about happiness, things, good, good luck

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.

Quote by William Godwin about man, character, world

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

Quote by William Godwin about things, good, good luck

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.

Quote by William Godwin about doubt

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Quote by William Godwin about rules, question, things, love

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

Quote by William Godwin about children, things

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Quote by William Godwin about duty, justice, moral

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Quote by William Godwin about genius, spirit

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

Quote by William Godwin about end, education