Margaret Cavendish Quotes

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For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

Margaret Cavendish

Adventure, Achievement, Noble

"Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader".

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Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

Margaret Cavendish

Stars, Memories, Moon

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The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

Margaret Cavendish

Owl, Bats, Truth Is

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I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

Margaret Cavendish

Husband, Thinking, Bad Husband

Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.146, Broadview Press

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Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

Graves, Wit, Tombs

'Plays' (1662) p. 525

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Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Margaret Cavendish

Brain, Fruit, Plagiarism

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Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

Margaret Cavendish

Wealth, Prosperity, Perfume

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One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

Margaret Cavendish

Friendship, Good Friend, May

Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.60, Broadview Press

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Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Margaret Cavendish

Pain, Oblivion, Mankind

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If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

Margaret Cavendish

Matter, Bees, Agree

Margaret Cavendish, “The Weight Of Atomes.”

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Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Margaret Cavendish

Wise, Nature, Hate

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Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Margaret Cavendish

Women, Religion, Conscience

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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.

Margaret Cavendish

Rude, Family And Friends, Literature

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Margaret Cavendish

Sex, Aggravation, Literature

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.52, Broadview Press

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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Margaret Cavendish

Mind, Body, Action

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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Margaret Cavendish

Delight, Pleasure, Method

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who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Margaret Cavendish

Poet

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First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

Men, Literature, Firsts

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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Margaret Cavendish

Delight, Pleasure, Plenty

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

Men, Rude, Devil

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And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Margaret Cavendish

Friendship, Country, Ties

Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

Margaret Cavendish

Understanding, Literature, Loyal

Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

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My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Margaret Cavendish

Mother, Recovery, Mistress

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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Margaret Cavendish

Years, Idiot, Wit

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

Margaret Cavendish

Mother, Pride, Gay

Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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Born: 1623
Died: December 15, 1673
Occupation: Writer
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