Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
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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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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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Taxes 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.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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