William Godwin

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

— William Godwin

#imagination #love #no love #passion #where

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. ↗

— William Godwin

#human #owe #reverence #shape

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

#apprehend #conceive #exercise #imagination #must

They held it their duty to live but for their country. ↗

— William Godwin

#duty #held #live #their

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. ↗

— William Godwin

#ocean #shore #unfathomable #without

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Godwin

#conscience #evil #forget #government #individual

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. ↗

— William Godwin

#cannot #capacity #our #own #perform