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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Hands Love Simplicity Truth
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
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
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
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
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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Disappointment Love 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
Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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Education Life Man Mistake Perfection Preparation View
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Eyes Myself Sad Stop View
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude
In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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Rich Sex Vice Woman
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.
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Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner

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