Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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