We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEither nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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The beginning is always today.
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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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