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

Quote by William Godwin

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Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety...

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety...

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and...

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and...

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is...

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is...

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit...

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit...

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well...

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well...

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument,...

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument,...

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

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

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows...

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows...

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life...

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life...

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy...

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy...

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends...

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends...

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the...

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the...

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper...

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper...

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

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