"As for my brothers, of whom I had……" — Margaret Cavendish
"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred."
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Margaret Cavendish
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23 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish has 23 quotes on this site.
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being…
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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…
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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…
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to…
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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…
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but…
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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…
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull,…
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't…
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred,…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
— George C. Marshall
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
— George Santayana
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Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made…
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox…
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A dreamer born is a hero bred...
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them…
— Damien Hirst
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving…
— Jonathan Swift
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Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
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