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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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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…
— Thomas Paine
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
— Samuel Johnson
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Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
— Harvey Mackay
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
— John Milton
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but…
— Edith Wharton
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
— Thomas Paine
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
— Vance Havner
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