"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my……" — Margaret Cavendish
"Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton."
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Margaret Cavendish
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23 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish
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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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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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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
— Thorstein Veblen
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they…
— George Whitefield
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
— Frederick Soddy
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and…
— Wendell Berry
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we…
— David Attenborough
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. .…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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