"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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"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
William Godwin"The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence."
William Godwin"The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited."
William Godwin"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."
William Godwin"Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible."
William Godwin"Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another."
William Godwin"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
William Godwin"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."
William Godwin