"For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life,……" — Margaret Cavendish
"For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses."
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23 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
- In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being…
- My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to…
- For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
- I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
- And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor…
- Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to…
- But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither…
- As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but…
- For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the…
- And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull,…
- As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
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