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" Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage. "
William Godwin
Duty
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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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" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "
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" The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. "
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" There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. "
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" The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society. "
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" Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. "
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" In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. "
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" The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. "
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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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" The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. "
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" It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man. "
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" Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone? "
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" I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling. "
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" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "
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" But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. "
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" Act up to the magnitude of your destiny. "
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" I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible. "
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" I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men. "
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" In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on. "
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" Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. "
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" The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. "
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He
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" During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism. "
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" Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. "
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" When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us. "
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" In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. "
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" The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. "
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" No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form. "
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" We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty. "
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" The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel. "
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" It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. "
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