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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft


Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

- Mary Wollstonecraft
Life Will

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

- Mary Wollstonecraft
Blind Mind End Will

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

- Mary Wollstonecraft
Women Being Government

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

- 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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