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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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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly…
— Daniel Boone
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
— Samuel Butler
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
— Samuel Johnson
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but…
— Teri Hatcher
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
— Charles Lamb
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to…
— Ben Jonson
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
— George Washington
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