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Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
Frances Power Cobbe / Writer
Atheist
May
Morality
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My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
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Panacea
Sincerity
Would Be
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Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
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Science
Links
Thrones
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Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
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Employment
Mind
Pleasure
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[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
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Law
Moral
Virtue
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Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
Frances Power Cobbe / Writer
Women
Bears
Sex
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The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
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Bird
Males
Moss
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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.
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Class
Order
Race
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It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.
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Home
Men
House
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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.
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Friendship
Differences
Dog
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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 who shall yield.
Frances Power Cobbe / Writer
Ideas
Struggle
Yield
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He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
Frances Power Cobbe / Writer
Men
Selfishness
Weakness
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If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.
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Circles
Doe
Noble
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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 more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.
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Men
Children
Giving
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Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
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Agitation
Giving
Responsibility
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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 of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.
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Power
Men
Lying
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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 senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!
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Men
Sex
Vanity
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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, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.
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Art
Father
Husband
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This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.
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Brain
Female
Wife
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The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.
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Animal
Dog
Exercise
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So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.
Frances Power Cobbe / Writer
Children
Heart
Mother
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