“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?” PeopleIfsHumansArtEndsWould BeGrowsNatureNaturalDealsCommonBearsHusbandUnderstoodCommon SensePocketsJustifyObligedBeardNot HappyHuman SocietyYour Husband Author:Mary Wortley Montagu
“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.” MenPassionNaturalStupidProudSillyReasonableAshamedShameful Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.” LifeMindDoeCareLife IsPassionNaturalKnowledgeVirtueFlowerProductsDemandSelf ImprovementAddFruitVicesEmploymentSoilCherishWeedPerpetualToo ShortExoticLife Is Too ShortShort LifeSolicitude Book:The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.” IfsWorldArtReasonWomenNaturalIgnoranceMinesGoldEducatedUselessInstructionNurseConcealed Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
