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Frances Wright
Age: 57 †
Born: 1795
Born: September 6
Died: 1852
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Writer
City of Dundee
Frances D'Arusmont
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Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
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... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.
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No man can see his own prejudices.
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Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
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The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
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... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.
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Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
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Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?
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It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
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What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?
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... a nation to be strong, must be united to be united, must be equal in condition to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
Frances Wright