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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.
- William Godwin
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#Learning
#Spirit
#Too Much
#Who
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.
- William Godwin
#Exercise
#Imagination
#Must
#Room
#Which
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
- William Godwin
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#Forget
#Haste
#Let Us
#Us
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.
- William Godwin
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#Education
#New
#Thinking
#True
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
- William Godwin
#Independence
#Individual
#Most
#Security
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
- William Godwin
#Imagination
#Men
#Morality
#Sorrow
While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.
- William Godwin
#Me
#Mother
#Nothing
#Parents
#Religion
It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.
- William Godwin
#Endure
#Existence
#Man
#Patience
#Who
To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
- William Godwin
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#Independence
#Others
#Road
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
- William Godwin
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#Independence
#Mind
#Never
#Proud
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
- William Godwin
#Independence
#Love
#Source
#Virtues
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
- William Godwin
#Genius
#Imagination
#Nothing
#Skill
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
- William Godwin
#Conscience
#Evil
#Government
#Judgement
In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.
- William Godwin
#Communication
#Heart
#Man
#More
#Woman
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?
- William Godwin
#Alone
#Discovery
#Great
#Race
#Thinking
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.
- William Godwin
#Nature
#Principles
#See
#Sin
#Sympathy
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
- William Godwin
#Creature
#Different
#How
#Man
#Society
#Solitude
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.
- William Godwin
#Brave
#Day
#Face
#Man
#World
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
- William Godwin
#Imagination
#Love
#No Love
#Passion
The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- William Godwin
#Feel
#Four
#Improvement
#Mind
#Principal
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.
- William Godwin
#Cultivation
#Knowledge
#Our
#Progress
#Unlimited
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
- William Godwin
#Active
#Desire
#Influence
#Perseverance
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.
- William Godwin
#Good
#Happiness
#Humanity
#Justice
#Love
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
- William Godwin
#Alone
#Invisible
#Only
#Shall
#Things
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
- William Godwin
#Good
#Innocence
#Man
#Mind
#Reflection
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
- William Godwin
#Any
#Impossible
#Love
#Obstacles
#Power
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
- William Godwin
#Innocence
#Integrity
#Lost
#Man
#Value
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.
- William Godwin
#Decide
#Law
#Man
#Nation
#Way
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.
- William Godwin
#Argument
#Brainy
#Doubt
#Me
#Strong
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
- William Godwin
#Duty
#Justice
#Legal
#Moral
#Sum
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
- William Godwin
#Education
#Everything
#Reach
#Reading
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