Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, 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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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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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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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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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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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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