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Man is the only creature we k...

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Invisible things are the only...

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The execution of any thing co...

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Self-deception is so far from...

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Woe to the man who is always ...

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Sympathy is one of the princi...

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Love conquers all difficultie...

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Study with desire is real act...

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The proper method for hasteni...

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin 118 quotes

It is questionless desirable ...

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.

William Godwin 118 quotes

I know nothing worth the livi...

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.

William Godwin 118 quotes

What are gold and jewels and ...

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Innocence is not virtue. Virt...

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The world is all alike. Those...

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

William Godwin 118 quotes

If he who employs coercion ag...

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 118 quotes

Law is made for man and not m...

Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.

William Godwin 118 quotes

A just and a brave man acts f...

A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.

William Godwin 118 quotes

The most desirable mode of ed...

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Everything understood by the ...

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

William Godwin 118 quotes

Tenderness is the name for a ...

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

William Godwin 118 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....