Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accusto… - Frances Power Cobbe
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accusto…
- Frances Power Cobbe
Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing mor… - Frances Power Cobbe
Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing mor…
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. - Frances Power Cobbe
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but wh… - Frances Power Cobbe
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but wh…
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them. - Frances Power Cobbe
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal o… - Frances Power Cobbe
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal o…
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. - Frances Power Cobbe
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or sense… - Frances Power Cobbe
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or sense…
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. - Frances Power Cobbe
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
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