William Godwin Quotes About Desire

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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William Godwin

Real Desire Study

William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.78

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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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Desire And Love Reason

William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Desire

William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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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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Men

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