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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Character Reason
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
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Man Struggle Virtue
I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
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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Beautiful Man Mindset Power Woman
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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Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Heart Myself Taste Virtue
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
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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Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Philosophy Truth Weakness
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.
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Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
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Dream End Forever Heart Life Live
But 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.
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Eyes Myself Sad Stop View
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
A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Man Possible Thinking View Woman

It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.

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