"Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity;……" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth."
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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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More Bashfulness Quotes
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps…
— Henry Mackenzie
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the…
— Mark Twain
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my…
— Margaret Cavendish
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
— George McGovern
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