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" 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. "
William Godwin
Good
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Justice
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" Justice is the sum of all moral duty. "
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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. "
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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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" A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct. "
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" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. "
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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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" God himself has no right to be a tyrant. "
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" There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. "
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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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" The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. "
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" How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses. "
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" What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to. "
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" Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. "
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" England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost. "
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Long
Great
" 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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" He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. "
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" Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. "
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" What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? "
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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. "
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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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" Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. "
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" 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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" 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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" Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. "
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" Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. "
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" Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection. "
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