Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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