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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

~William Godwin

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

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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

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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.

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Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

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Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

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Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 3rd, 1756

Died: April 7th, 1836

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