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"30 William Godwin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 March 1756. Died: 7 April 1836 | Journalist | Political philosopher | Novelist |

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

Man Value Innocence Integrity
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
He Loves Reading Everything
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Passion Love Imagination
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Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

Give Energy Mental Attraction
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Study Desire Mockery Activity
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Great Love Human beings Parents
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The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.

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

Haste Educate Forget Ends
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Lessons Youth Conduct Riper years
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice Sum Moral Duty
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Man Creature Natural life Memory
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Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

Love Obstacles Power Impossible
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With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

Respect Religious God Faithfully
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolutions Passion Sober Reason
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Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

Human Orinates Vices Political
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Perform Best Power Think
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Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness

Harhness Relative Fruits Kindness
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Perseverance Principle Influence Desire
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Superior Virtue Fruit Intelligence
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Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide

Law Man Intrests Decide
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There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!

Ways Heart Man Conceals
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The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character

Man Life Maintains Character
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Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
Act up Magnitude Destiny
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Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions

Man Books Determinations Actions
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Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Government Injustice Effect Embody
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The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

True Moral Pleasure Happiness
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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

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

Learning Genius Reads Proper
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Execution Implies Place Meditation
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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.

God Existence Creator Universe
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William Godwin Quotes & Sayings