Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTrue 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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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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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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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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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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