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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
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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Himself Right
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
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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Himself Sex Woman
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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Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Affection Friendship Principle Time
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Myself Power Woman Women Empowerment
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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Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
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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Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
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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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Dream Freedom Myself
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Imagination Philosophy
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Man Struggle Virtue
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Character Reason
But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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Eyes Myself Sad Stop View
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice
Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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End Life Necessary Price
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue
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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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
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Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman

Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

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