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William Godwin: 'Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.'

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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.'

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William Godwin: 'It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!'

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William Godwin: 'The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.'

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William Godwin: 'No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.'

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William Godwin: 'What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'No one does anything from a single motive.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Good and bad men are less than they seem.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.'

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