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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
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William Godwin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1756
Born: March 3
Died: 1836
Died: April 7
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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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.
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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.
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There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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Invisible things are the only realities invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
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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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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
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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.
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
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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.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
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