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Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.
~ William Godwin
Animosity
Assume
Become
Beings
Enemies
Ever
Guard
He
Hears
Him
His
Individual
Lest
Man
May
Meaning
Never
Plain
Prejudice
Regards
Should
Social
Speaking
Surrounded
Those
Thought
Through
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Whom
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Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint.
~ William Godwin
Admit
As Far As
Connected
Consequently
Far
Freedom
Opinion
Public
Restraint
Security
Should
Understanding
Will
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.
~ William Godwin
Fruit
Intelligence
Must
Superior
Virtue
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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
Another
Aspect
Dwells
Enough
Existing
Monstrous
Most
Nature
Our
Ourselves
Pleasure
Principles
Reflected
Rejoice
Rooted
Secret
See
Seeing
Sin
Sometimes
Sympathy
Which
Widely
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Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.
~ William Godwin
Exquisite
Generous
His
Implied
Impulse
Lover
Most
Name
Protection
Sensation
Tenderness
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The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.
~ William Godwin
Admission
Between
Chief
Country
Creation
Difference
Either
Evidence
Hands
King
Life
Man
Men
Nature
No Difference
One-Man
Only
Other
Our
Own
Place
Purely
Set
Therefore
Up
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The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
~ William Godwin
Arise
Beings
Enemy
Evils
Few
Formidable
History
Man
Material
Most
Neither
Nor
Other
Political
Shows
Society
Structure
Sufficiently
The History Of
Trivial
Universe
Us
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The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.
~ William Godwin
Cultivation
Extent
Knowledge
Our
Progress
Unlimited
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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
George
I Feel
Improvement
Indebted
Instructor
Joseph
Mind
Oral
Principal
Samuel
Taylor
Thomas
Were
Whom
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The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
~ William Godwin
Animation
Before
Character
Doubt
Enter
Fervor
Full
General
Interests
Italian
Natives
Sincerity
Stranger
Surprising
Them
Truly
Welfare
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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
~ William Godwin
Dislike
Independence
Love
Source
Thousand
Treatment
Unjust
Virtues
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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.
~ William Godwin
Almost
Always
Artificial
Character
His
Life
Man
May
Part
Plays
Theatre
Who
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The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.
~ William Godwin
Body
Child
Development
Equally
Flies
Frame
Free
His
Lawless
Less
Mind
Necessary
Object
Should
Steps
Than
Thoughts
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The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
~ William Godwin
Desirable
General
Independence
Individual
Mankind
Most
Security
Smallest
State
Which
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The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.
~ William Godwin
Afloat
Change
Constitution
Existing
Human
Human Mind
Interesting
Mind
Most
Now
Other
Party
Presented
Question
Reformation
Respecting
Society
Terms
Things
While
World
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The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.
~ William Godwin
Become
Does
Long
Man
Must
Organ
Remain
Remark
Sight
Soul
Still
Substances
Subtle
Those
Visible
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The true key of the universe is love.
~ William Godwin
Key
Love
True
Universe
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The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.
~ William Godwin
Happiness
Moral
Object
Pleasure
Political
True
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The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
~ William Godwin
Adverse
Away
Cannot
Circumstances
Fortune
He
Him
His
Indebted
Intrinsic
Man
Mere
Power
Qualities
Strip
Take
Value
Which
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The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.
~ William Godwin
Alike
Better
Different
Mean
More
Neighbours
Only
Road
Same
Same Thing
Seem
Take
Than
Thing
Those
Though
World
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