The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWe must all be in love once in our lives.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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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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She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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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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I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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