Quotes by Margaret Cavendish - Page 1

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Margaret Cavendish / Writer
Marriage
Graves
Tombs
Wit
Grave
Tomb
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who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?
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I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.
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Bad Husband
Husband
Thinking
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Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.
Margaret Cavendish / Writer
Perfume
Prosperity
Wealth
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One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.
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Friendship
Good Friend
May
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As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.
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Bred
Brothers
Whom
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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Delight
Felicity
Method
Pleasure
Temperance
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If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree
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Agree
Bees
Matter
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
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Idiot
Wit
Years
According
Indeed
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The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
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Bats
Owl
Truth Is
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Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
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Religion
Women
Conscience
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For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.
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Achievement
Adventure
Noble
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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
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Decency
Delight
Pleasure
Plenty
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
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Disorder
Madness
Relish
Senses
Yield
Besides
Disgust
Doth
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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.
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Mankind
Oblivion
Pain
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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.
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Action
Ashamed
Birth
Body
Breeding
Crime
Mind
Actions
Fortunes
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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.
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Men
Capable
Firsts
Literature
Bred
Likewise
Manner
Observe
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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.
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Cost
Mistress
Mother
Recovery
Bestow
Servants
Sparing
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
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Heroic
Industrious
Literature
Misfortunes
Mother
Remedy
Suffering
Patiently
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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.
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Family And Friends
Fool
Literature
Rude
Wanton
Actions
Chose
Friends And Family
Indeed
Indiscreet
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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.
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Brain
Fruit
Plagiarism
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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.
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Aggravation
Literature
Merit
Perceive
Sex
Words
Advance
Consider
Neither
Nor
Ponder
Rationally
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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.
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Delight
Fine
Garments
Gay
Maintaining
Mother
Neat
Pride
Rich
Beyond
Costly
Estate
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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
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Affectionate
Brother
Brothers And Sisters
Children
Sister In Law
Agreeable
Brothers
Sisters
Natures
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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Beggar
Doors
House
Literature
Parliament
Door
Indeed
Stood
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For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
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Allowance
Benefits
Lord
Owners
Should Have
Wife
Benefit
Estate
Gave
Hopes
Receive
Sold
Thereby
Wives
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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.
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Friendship
Break
Country
Despised
Lord
Lost
Pinching
Poverty
Ties
Banished
Bonds
Estate
Hath
Neither
Nor
Weaken
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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.
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Nature
Wise
Hate
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Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
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Children
Giving
Ill
Noble
Persons
Reserved
Vulgar
Bred
Counsel
Examples
Forced
Servants
Worse
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.
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War
Brother
Father
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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.
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Men
Beast
Celestial
Creatures
Devil
Rude
Brute
Civil
Cruel
Devils
Genteel
Natures
Worse
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.
Margaret Cavendish / Writer
Brother
Discipline
Lord
Take Care
Valiant
Heir
Bred
Estate
Lucas
Skill
Therein
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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.
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Bashful
Court
Fearful
Honest
Literature
Loyal
Reputation
Understanding
Wit
Advanced
Belonged
Heeded
Learnt
Neither
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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.
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Memories
Moon
Stars
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