William Godwin quote: "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."

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

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to sh...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrut...
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
WILLIAM GODWIN

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting...
WILLIAM GODWIN

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence...
WILLIAM GODWIN

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, o...
WILLIAM GODWIN

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and withou...
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thou...
WILLIAM GODWIN

I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it them...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves refl...
WILLIAM GODWIN

During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth....
WILLIAM GODWIN

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till t...
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The...
WILLIAM GODWIN

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skil...
WILLIAM GODWIN

There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense....
WILLIAM GODWIN

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupati...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
WILLIAM GODWIN

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequenc...
WILLIAM GODWIN

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-fiv...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would....
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and c...
WILLIAM GODWIN

There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawc...
WILLIAM GODWIN

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabit...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object...
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a per...
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose...
WILLIAM GODWIN

In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kind...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of har...
WILLIAM GODWIN

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
WILLIAM GODWIN

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
WILLIAM GODWIN

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating i...
WILLIAM GODWIN

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rat...
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

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

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memor...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desir...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embal...
WILLIAM GODWIN

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rat...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him w...
WILLIAM GODWIN

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good wil...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Trust [the student] in a certain degree with himself. Suffer him in some instances to select his own...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Liberty is one of the best of all sublunary advantages. I would willingly therefore communicate know...
WILLIAM GODWIN

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

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faith...
WILLIAM GODWIN

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
FAY GODWIN

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of th...
FAY GODWIN

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various...
FAY GODWIN

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of t...
FAY GODWIN

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work w...
FAY GODWIN

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portrai...
FAY GODWIN

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities i...
FAY GODWIN

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
FAY GODWIN

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love...
FAY GODWIN

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from eac...
FAY GODWIN

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
FAY GODWIN

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
FAY GODWIN

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
FAY GODWIN

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour...
FAY GODWIN

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Ph...
FAY GODWIN

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land...
FAY GODWIN

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation a...
FAY GODWIN

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
GAIL GODWIN

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
GAIL GODWIN

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
GAIL GODWIN

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you...
GAIL GODWIN

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on ...
MIKE GODWIN

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
FAY GODWIN

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
GAIL GODWIN

We just didn't string anything together. They got a big hit at a big time and that was the differenc...
BILLY GODWIN

The first sweep of the year is awful nice. Hopefully, this will get rid of the Sunday jinx that we h...
BILLY GODWIN

If we can win every series, we'll have a good season.
BILLY GODWIN

I though the key point in the game was Scott Andrews coming in first and third and Duke with a 2-1 l...
BILLY GODWIN

There's nobody on this team that I pull harder for than Adam Witter. He works hard and good things d...
BILLY GODWIN

I'm kind of glad after what happened that we have a mid-week game. I think if you're a competitor, y...
BILLY GODWIN

In this game, it's hard to shut out anybody. So many things happen with an aluminum bat. You have to...
BILLY GODWIN

I personally don't think it could have went to a better candidate.
BILLY GODWIN

Especially when it's a head hitting a neck, you thank the Lord that they're both fine, able to stay ...
BILLY GODWIN

We just didn't string anything together offensively. If you look at the difference in our hit total ...
BILLY GODWIN

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper o...
GAIL GODWIN

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
GAIL GODWIN

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the o...
MIKE GODWIN

We created some pressure in other innings, but we just didn't cash in on them. At the end of the gam...
BILLY GODWIN

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized...
GAIL GODWIN

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it
GAIL GODWIN

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
GAIL GODWIN

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifeti...
GAIL GODWIN

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
JO GODWIN

I feel to that the gap between my new life in New York and the situation at home in Africa is stretc...
PETER GODWIN

I think it's about creating pressure. When you can get a bunt down in a good situation in the right ...
BILLY GODWIN

It's probably the most humbling and uplifting experience you can have. First to be humbled by where ...
BILLY GODWIN

I'm not a big self-promoter. I'd prefer to emphasize our club. I don't think that billboard is going...
BILLY GODWIN

The key is to slow it down and not get in such a hurry. (The season opener) will be here quick, but ...
BILLY GODWIN

The first goal, and I think we've accomplished that, is to get the (players) to believe in me. I def...
BILLY GODWIN

Every job that I have taken, my goal has not been to see where I was going, but to work as hard as I...
BILLY GODWIN

I assume if I do a good job, I'll get an opportunity. I think coach Holland would take my resume.
BILLY GODWIN

Any good coach has to have the team behind them.
BILLY GODWIN

I would say, that certainly, this was all of a sudden. I would say there was some concern. I think t...
BILLY GODWIN

But I'm proud we decided to do this building. We showed it can be done. I feel kind of like we helpe...
WES GODWIN

That's part of the game in construction. Your best plans get turned around by things beyond your con...
WES GODWIN

A lot of people said we couldn't build a project like this in Marietta. But I always believed if you...
WES GODWIN

Can't miss it, huh? What do you think? It's starting to look a lot like a building.
WES GODWIN

He's not real trendy but he'll do alright out there.
GARRETT GODWIN

Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater
GAIL GODWIN

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: t...
GAIL GODWIN

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become ...
GAIL GODWIN

Dustin has what I call the X-factor. If he doesn't go out there with great stuff – and I don't thi...
BILLY GODWIN

It's going to be a fun road trip, we're getting to stop in Vegas so we're all looking forward to goi...
GARRETT GODWIN

He'll throw his horns around a little bit, run away when we're trying to put the halter around him, ...
GARRETT GODWIN

He's pretty docile most of the time. He can be a little ornery sometimes, especially at the end of a...
GARRETT GODWIN

The threats are still there.
HEIDI GODWIN

It's obviously an issue that Americans care very much about.
HEIDI GODWIN

We should not gamble with the progress that we've made.
HEIDI GODWIN

Probably in the worst shape are home offices, the accumulation of every-day paperwork.
JANINE GODWIN

I set up organizational sessions once and week, once a month or whatever a client prefers. It really...
JANINE GODWIN

I'm really a counselor and clutter therapist. I am not looking at something and thinking it's a mess...
JANINE GODWIN

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inc...
LINDA M. GODWIN

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting ...
LINDA M. GODWIN

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ah...
LINDA M. GODWIN

It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experi...
LINDA M. GODWIN

As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until ...
LINDA M. GODWIN

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
LINDA M. GODWIN

UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.
LINDA M. GODWIN

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

Education entails the development of body and mind towards getting whatever you want without violati...
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

You have the power within you to make your world a reality.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivi...
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

You have to really believe that you can move mountains.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

The lesson of the ages have proved that success is more than just the accumulation of wealth and by ...
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

Do not wait, there will never be a right time, start from where you stand.
GODWIN ELENDU PH.D

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Умът на врага ти е най-голямото ти оръжие.
GUIDO MINA DI SOSPIRO, JOSCELYN GODWIN

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

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.

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William Godwin

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.

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