The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
From William Godwin
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.
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.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
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.
Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
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