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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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I like to use significant words.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
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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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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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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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