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.
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years. - Margaret Cavendish
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
- Margaret Cavendish
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 and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
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 r… - Margaret Cavendish
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 r…
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 wha… - Margaret Cavendish
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 wha…
Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache. - Margaret Cavendish
Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.
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
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.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. - Margaret Cavendish
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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 wome… - Margaret Cavendish
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 wome…
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. - Margaret Cavendish
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
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