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?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTBut 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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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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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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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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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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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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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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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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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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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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