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They held it their duty to live but for their country.
— William Godwin
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.
— William Godwin
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
— William Godwin
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
— William Godwin
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
— William Godwin
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
— William Godwin
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
— William Godwin
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
— William Godwin
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.
— William Godwin
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
— William Godwin
The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
— William Godwin
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
— William Godwin
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
— William Godwin
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
— William Godwin
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
— William Godwin
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
— William Godwin
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
— William Godwin
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
— William Godwin
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
— William Godwin
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
— William Godwin
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
— William Godwin
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
— William Godwin
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
— William Godwin
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
— William Godwin
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
— William Godwin
He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
— William Godwin
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
— William Godwin
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,
— William Godwin
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
— William Godwin
Power is not happiness.
— William Godwin
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
— William Godwin
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
— William Godwin
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
— William Godwin
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
— William Godwin
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
— William Godwin
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
— William Godwin
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
— William Godwin
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
— William Godwin
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
— William Godwin
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
— William Godwin
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
— William Godwin
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
— William Godwin
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
— William Godwin