William Godwin - Love Quotes

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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,

William Godwin

Love of our country is another of those specious illusions, which have been invented by impostors in order to render the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs.

William Godwin

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

William Godwin

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

William Godwin

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

William Godwin

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Godwin

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

William Godwin

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

William Godwin