Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Heart, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.120, Broadview Press

• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Affection, Arise

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.156, Lulu.com

• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sublime, Principles, Serious

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.90, Booklassic

• I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Strong, Writing, Sleep

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Friendship, Flames, Wind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

• At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  School, Heart, Boys

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.196, Booklassic

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