English - Writer | March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
William Godwin
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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.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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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.
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
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