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

~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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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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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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Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.

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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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Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

~William Godwin

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 3rd, 1756

Died: April 7th, 1836

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