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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft


It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

- Georges Bernanos

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

- Jane Austen

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

- Lord Byron

You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

- Robert Patrick

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

- Grover Cleveland

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

- Plato