Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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I like to use significant words.
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The beginning is always today.
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True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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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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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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