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

Quote by William Godwin

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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is...

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is...

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it....

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it....

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

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

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.

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

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

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

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

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

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act...

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act...

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,...

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the...

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...