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Nature Man World Will

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

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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

- Jack Nicholson

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Being

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness Man

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Men

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

Wives Women Men Will

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Sex Fact Women Men

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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Content Nature

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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Nature

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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Fortune Nature Work

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature Worth Man

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

- Adam Weishaupt

Voice Nature Work Time

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

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Nature

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

- Victor Hugo