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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. ↗

— William Godwin

#every #love #love is #measured #out

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#blue collar #collar #kinsey #lawyer #never

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

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. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

#creature #ended #him #himself #his

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. ↗

— William Godwin

#come #future #image #necessarily #past

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#desires #diligent #himself #love #loves

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. ↗

— William Godwin

#early #lessons #regulated #their #years

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

— William Godwin

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