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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Humanity Right Violence
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Hands Love Simplicity Truth
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
I 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.
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Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Age Enough Learning Live
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sculpture the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Beautiful Body Mindset Seek Woman
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue
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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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Exception Myself Necessary Promise Sex
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
Few, 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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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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Genius Man Talent Woman
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Break Up Heart Myself True Love

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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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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