English - Writer | March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836
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
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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.
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I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.
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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.
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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.
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Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
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What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
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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?
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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!
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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.
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The true key of the universe is love.
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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.
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