Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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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.
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I like to use significant words.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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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 honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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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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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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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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