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Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft


Soul Mind May Nothing

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

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

- Mary Wollstonecraft
Wrong Power Right Women Being

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
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
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
Struggle Present Freedom Women

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

- Julien Benda

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

- Dean Inge

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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