William Godwin Quotes

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. - William Godwin

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? - William Godwin

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. - William Godwin

Trust [the student] in a certain degree with himself. Suffer him in some instances to select his own course of reading. There is danger that there should be something to studied and monotonous in the selection we should make for him. Suffer him to wander through the wilds of literature. - William Godwin

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. - William Godwin

They held it their duty to live but for their country. - William Godwin

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. - William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. - William Godwin

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. - William Godwin

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