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There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!
~ William Godwin
Heart
Itself
Man
Many
Ways
Which
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There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.
~ William Godwin
Class
Convictions
Electricity
Else
Essentially
Everything
Everything Else
Exclusion
Filled
Minds
Own
Persons
Purposes
Seem
Sentiment
Souls
Thinking
Train
Whose
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There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that we should be happy. Though our life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent to part with it.
~ William Godwin
Almost
Be Happy
Consent
Enjoyment
Happy
Indescribable
Life
Necessary
Our
Part
Purpose
Should
Something
Though
Ties
Us
Without
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There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
~ William Godwin
Aspire
Brilliant
Enviable
Figure
Genius
Human
Human Imagination
Imagination
Nothing
Realize
Skill
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There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!
~ William Godwin
Any
Enormity
Freight
Heads
How
Imagine
Infamy
Instant
May
Much
Ought
Our
Over
Passes
Scarcely
Thoughts
Watch
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Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The 'Systeme de la Nature,' read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist.
~ William Godwin
About
Beginning
Believed
Changed
Condemnation
Divine
Doctrine
Everlasting
La
Made
Majority
Mankind
Me
Nature
Objects
Opinion
Punishment
Read
Till
Were
Would
Would-Be
Year
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To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
~ William Godwin
Absolutely
Assistance
Cases
Diminish
Felt
Genuine
Independence
Necessary
Only
Others
Road
Which
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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
Benefit
Conferred
Discovery
Ever
Feeling
Great
Him
Human
Human Race
Important
Incapable
Prosecuted
Race
Standing
Thinking
Who
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We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.
~ William Godwin
Actor
Cannot
Circumstances
Deeds
Degree
Former
Justice
Ourselves
Real
Remove
Some
Stand
Substitute
Surrounded
Those
Times
We Cannot
Were
Which
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We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
~ William Godwin
Any
Cannot
Mankind
Must
Need
Stand
Things
Us
We Cannot
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We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
~ William Godwin
Cold
Covet
Desire
Experience
Good
Ill
Learn
Prohibition
Really
Secret
Things
Those
Trial
Us
Whether
Which
Without
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We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
~ William Godwin
Action
Discharge
Duties
Duty
Either
Every
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Us
Utter
Will
Word
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What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.
~ William Godwin
Attached
Being
Dirt
Face
Gold
Heart
Human
Human Face
Human Heart
Jewels
Kindness
Love
Mere
Nature
Objects
Only
Our
Precious
Sympathies
Worth
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What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?
~ William Godwin
Been
Birth
Contemplation
Dreamed
High
Him
His
Never
Theme
Throne
Who
Whom
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What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
~ William Godwin
Habit
Offensive
Power
Reconcile
Us
Which
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When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.
~ William Godwin
Arrived
Calamity
Certain
Composure
Contracts
Expectation
Feared
Heart
Hope
Itself
Look
Most
Out
Principle
Reduced
Seems
Shut
State
Us
Which
Within
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When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.
~ William Godwin
Alien
Altogether
Bring
Experience
Gaiety
Heard
Home
Idea
Look
Mortality
Nothing
Our
Roses
Speculation
Tale
Thoughts
Us
Youth
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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
Affection
Always
Belonged
Certain
Certain Degree
Degree
Felt
Had
Hung
Lived
Me
Mother
Much
Mysterious
Nothing
Over
Parents
Protection
Religion
Reverence
Somebody
Something
Superior
While
Who
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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.
~ William Godwin
About
Am
Assurance
Consequences
Easy
Faculties
Faithfully
Given
God
I Am
Improve
Me
Opportunities
Perfectly
Religious
Respect
Sentiments
Tranquillity
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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
Acquisition
Anxiety
Any
Ardent
Ardor
Feeling
Genuine
Imagination
Interests
Men
Morality
Other
Profound
Pursuit
Sorrow
Without
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