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«In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.»
«The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.»
«Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.»
«The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself»
Author: William Godwin
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«Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.»
«What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?»
Author: 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.»
Author: William Godwin
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«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.»
«He that loves reading has everything within his reach.»
Author: William Godwin
«There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.»
Author: William Godwin
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