The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWithout the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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I like to use significant words.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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