William Godwin Quotes
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Quotes to Explore
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.
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When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.
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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.
