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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

~William Godwin

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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

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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.

~William Godwin

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While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.

~William Godwin

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The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.

~William Godwin

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Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

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Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.

~William Godwin

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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.

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I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

~William Godwin

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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.

~William Godwin

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 3rd, 1756

Died: April 7th, 1836

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