Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEvery glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWithout the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTHow can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTPope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAll the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLike the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWe must all be in love once in our lives.
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTConsidering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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