Quote by 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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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – 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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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. – Russell Page

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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. – Eartha Kitt

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. – Anatole France

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