Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Soul Quotes

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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The virtue of patriotism is subordinate in most souls to individual and family aggrandizement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

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They had souls large enough to feel the wrongs of others.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe — the open sesame to every soul.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love — friends, counselors — a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness; — this is marriage; and this is the only corner-stone of an enduring home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton