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" Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe. "
William Godwin
Great
Process
Harmony
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" Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.' "
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" Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide. "
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" If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. "
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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 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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" God himself has no right to be a tyrant. "
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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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" It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. "
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" The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising. "
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" The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. "
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Children
Great
Love
" Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough. "
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" The true key of the universe is love. "
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" Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. "
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Itself
Pregnant
Revolution
" There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that we should be happy. Though our life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent to part with it. "
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Life
Happy
Without
" 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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Doing
Moral
" I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education. "
William Godwin
Love
Children
Education
" 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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Corrupt
Man
More
" 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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Busy
Man
Hard
" It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach. "
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Reach
Circumstances
Human
" Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence. "
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Virtue
Superior
Fruit
" The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. "
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Desires
He
Reason
" Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions. "
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Book
Books
Dead
" The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. "
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" Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. "
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Protection
" How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude! "
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Solitude
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" There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. "
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Human
Everything
" 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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" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "
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" 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. "
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" Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake. "
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Vices
Mistake