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" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "
William Godwin
Grief
Will
Said
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" I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. "
William Godwin
Seems
How
Which
" In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind. "
William Godwin
Summer
Own
Mind
" Act up to the magnitude of your destiny. "
William Godwin
Up
Magnitude
Destiny
" There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity! "
William Godwin
Watch
How
Imagine
" The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. "
William Godwin
Any
Place
Meditation
" 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. "
William Godwin
Nation
Wherever
Way
" My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. "
William Godwin
Connected
Books
Active
" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "
William Godwin
Reading
Everything
Education
" 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. "
William Godwin
I Am
Temper
Men
" Justice is the sum of all moral duty. "
William Godwin
Moral
Legal
Justice
" Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. "
William Godwin
Study
Real
Without
" 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. "
William Godwin
Animation
Sincerity
Doubt
" God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something. "
William Godwin
Existence
Universe
Own
" The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible. "
William Godwin
Man
Sight
Soul
" The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. "
William Godwin
True
Happiness
Moral
" Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint. "
William Godwin
Opinion
Admit
Freedom
" 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
Mother
Religion
Parents
" Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. "
William Godwin
Desire
Active
Influence
" 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. "
William Godwin
Expectation
Look
Hope
" Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain. "
William Godwin
Alone
Invisible
Only
" 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. "
William Godwin
Reach
Circumstances
Human
" 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
" No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form. "
William Godwin
Cultivate
Repetition
Zeal
" Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. "
William Godwin
Political
Human
Constitution
" Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. "
William Godwin
Itself
Pregnant
Revolution
" 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. "
William Godwin
God
Clouds
Nature
" The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "
William Godwin
Principal
Four
Feel
" One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. "
William Godwin
Reason
Gift
Earth
" 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. "
William Godwin
Experience
Knowledge
God
" Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. "
William Godwin
Everything
Understood
Sense