"A modest man is steady, an humble man……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous."
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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92 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft has 92 quotes on this site.
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to…
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged…
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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The beginning is always today.
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The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is…
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
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To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms…
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
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