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It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
~ William Godwin
Characteristic
Conversation
Faculty
Flow
Giving
Indeed
Interchange
Love
Passion
Perpetual
Reflections
Sentiments
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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
Conceive
Endure
Existence
He
Him
Himself
Man
Necessary
Patience
Persuaded
Should
Something
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Would
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It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.
~ William Godwin
Art
Before
Channel
Consequence
Desirable
Either
Even
Genius
Habits
His
Learned
Man
Necessary
Powers
Right
Science
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Twenty-Five
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It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
~ William Godwin
Aspiring
Doing
Effect
Good
Lose
Maxims
Moral
Oldest
Opportunity
Prudence
You
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It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
~ William Godwin
Afford
Allow
Any
Benefit
Cases
Criminal
Desirable
Escape
Established
Evasion
Him
Law
Letter
Ordinary
Ourselves
Positive
Restrain
Result
Shall
Wherever
Within
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It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
~ William Godwin
Accommodate
Affairs
Circumstances
Concerned
Conducting
However
Human
Human Affairs
Instruments
May
Misfortune
Must
Own
Pure
Reach
Themselves
Those
Use
Which
Who
Within
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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.
~ William Godwin
Decide
Interests
Law
Made
Man
Most
Nation
One-Way
Ought
Require
Should
Sure
Valuable
Way
Wherever
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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.
~ William Godwin
Actions
Book
Books
Boundless
Dead
Despise
Flesh
Had
Man
Motion
Mummy
Once
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Variety
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Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
~ William Godwin
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Conquers
Difficulties
Effects
Impossible
Love
Obstacles
Other
Power
Would
Would-Be
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Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
~ William Godwin
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Flaws
He
Integrity
Man
May
Mixed
Nature
Some
Some Things
Things
Trusted
Without
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Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
~ William Godwin
Betray
Cause
Contend
Earnest
Engaged
Fervor
Half
Little
Men
More
Prepared
Services
Than
Undertake
Vindication
Warmth
Which
Who
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My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.
~ William Godwin
Active
Been
Books
Cast
Concerns
Connected
Contemplative
Entered
Former
Had
Merely
Occasions
Otherwise
Perhaps
Recluse
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Some
Temper
World
Writer
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No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
~ William Godwin
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Innocence
Integrity
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Lost
Man
Them
Value
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No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
~ William Godwin
Cultivate
Display
Fervent
Form
Mere
No-One
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Zeal
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Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.
~ William Godwin
Grief
Nay
Occupation
Pressing
Remedy
Said
Sovereign
Will
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Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'
~ William Godwin
Been
Beings
Care
Choosing
Has-Been
Human
Human Beings
Majority
Never
Own
Perhaps
Regularly
Sentence
Standing
Take
Take Care
Them
Themselves
Think
Till
Time
You
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Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.
~ William Godwin
All Things
Among
Awe
Beautiful
Bosom
Clouds
Every
Finds
God
Hears
Him
Holy
Inspires
Living
Most
Most Beautiful
Mysterious
Natural
Nature
Object
Religion
Sees
Sense
Sentiments
Soul
System
Things
Whatever
Which
Wind
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Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.
~ William Godwin
All Things
Believe
Brute
Cannot
Converse
Discrimination
Divides
Existence
Great
Important
Man
Most
None
Our
Point
Prerogative
Religion
Reported
See
Senses
Special
The Most Important
Things
Us
We Cannot
Which
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Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.
~ William Godwin
Acquainted
Actions
Contemptible
Corrupt
Far
Force
His
Honorable
Impossible
Man
More
Most
Motives
Nearly
Nothing
Ordinary
Phenomena
Self-Deception
Some
Than
Usual
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Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable of experiencing the most beneficial changes, for this reason what are vulgarly called 'venerable establishments' will often range themselves in opposition to the best interests of the community.
~ William Godwin
Attributes
Beneficial
Best
Best Interests
Capable
Changes
Community
Experiencing
Great
Improvement
Interests
Most
Often
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Our
Range
Reason
Since
Species
Susceptible
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