Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. M
  4. Mary Wollstonecraft
  5. Heart

Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes about Heart

All Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes Affection Age Atheism Character Children Diversity Education Equality Evil Feelings Feminism Giving Heart quotes Husband Imagination Justice Literature Love Mankind Morality Prejudice Pride Running School Sorrow Understanding Virtue Weakness
Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Book, Heart, Mind
Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Heart, Reflection, Names
Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.166, Oxford University Press

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Dream, Spring, Heart
Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.55, Lulu.com

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Heart, Men, Pay
Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.13, Booklassic

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Dream, Heart, Literature
Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Heart, Mind, Wish
Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Believe, Heart, Mind
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Children, Tired, Heart

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Education, Independent, Heart
Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Book, Reading, Heart

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

You May Also Like: