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Margaret Cavendish has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those…
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where…
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care…
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity…
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted…
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor…
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and…
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For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should…
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and…
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the…
— Henry Mackenzie
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
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Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of…
— Mark Twain
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is…
— Margaret Cavendish
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
— George McGovern
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