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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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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…
— Thomas Hobbes
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A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
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Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They…
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If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a…
— Andrew Johnson
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,…
— Robert Browning
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Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week…
— John Fletcher
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
— Edmund Waller
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
— Hilary Mantel
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that…
— Mike Farrell
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