The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaxes 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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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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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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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We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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