"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
-William Godwin
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"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.“
-William Godwin
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"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
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
-William Godwin
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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
-William Godwin
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"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
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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
-William Godwin
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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