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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSimplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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The beginning is always today.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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