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William Godwin Quotes

English - Writer | March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

Integrity Man Value Innocence Lost

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Education Reading Reach Everything

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Love Passion Imagination No Love

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.

Hope Heart Look Expectation Within

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Education Forget Us Educate Haste

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

Life Nature Happiness Best Simple

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Revolution Tyranny Indignation Itself

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.

Nature Love Kindness Heart Gold

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.

Me Strong Brainy Doubt Argument

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

Love Independence Dislike Source

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.

Day Man Brave World Face Spirit

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

Man Solitude Society Different How

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