The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAll the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTBut what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTOnly that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTBut let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIf children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLike the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet 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?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEvery glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT