Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Nature Quotes

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My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations — Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu