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Famous quotes by Writers

"The idle always have a mind to do something"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"All grand thoughts come from the heart"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"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, Writer
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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection"
William Godwin, Writer
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"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years"
William Godwin, Writer
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"The execution of any thing considerable implies, in the first place, previous persevering meditation"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... He who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny"
William Godwin, Writer
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"One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason"
William Godwin, Writer
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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"If people did not compliment one another, there would be little society"
Luc de Clapiers, Writer
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"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore"
William Godwin, Writer
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"They held it their duty to live but for their country"
William Godwin, Writer
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"If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such"
William Godwin, Writer
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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil"
William Godwin, Writer
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"Beware of your habits. The better they are, the more surely they will be your undoing"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
Holbrook Jackson
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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
Holbrook Jackson
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"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself"
Isak Dinesen, Writer
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"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
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"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
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"No man is ever old enough to know better"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
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"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
Holbrook Jackson
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