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WOMEN never have a complete severity of Demeanour except towards those whom they dislike.

PLEASURE is to Women what the Sun is to the

Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys.

Woman. Shakespeare.

THE hand, that hath made you fair, hath made you good: the Goodness, that is cheap in Beauty, makes Beauty brief in goodness; but Grace, being the Soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. Woman. Colton.

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OST Females will forgive a Liberty, rather than a

stealing her picture, although it were set in gold, it would be a new case in Law; but if he carried off the Setting, and left the Portrait, I would not answer for his safety.

Woman. Shakespeare.

AM ashamed, that Women are so simple

I Peace;

Or seek for Rule, Supremacy, and Sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the World;
But that our soft conditions and our Hearts
Should well agree with our external parts ?

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HE Women are satisfied with less than the Men; and yet, notwithstanding this, they are less easily satisfied. In the first place-Preference and Precedence are indispensable articles with them, if we would have our favours graciously received; they look moreover to the mode, the manner, and the address, rather than to the value of the obligation, and estimate it more by the time, the cost, and the trouble we may have expended upon it, than by its intrinsic worth. Attention is ever current coin with the Ladies, and they weigh the Heart much more scrupulously than the Hand.

WOMEN

WOMEN can less easily surmount their Coquetry than their Passions.

we were to form an image of dignity in a Man, we

I should give him Wisdom and Valour, as being essential

to the character of manhood. In the like manner, if you describe a right Woman in a laudable sense, she should have gentle Softness, tender Fear, and all those parts of life which distinguish her from the other sex; with some subordination to it, but such an Inferiority that makes her still more lovely.

Woman. - La Rochefoucauld. HERE can be no regulation in the Minds nor in the Hearts of Women, unless their temperament is in unison with it.

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VIRTUOUS mind in a fair body is indeed a fine Picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful Sex all over charms.

IF two Gods should play some heavenly match,

And on the wager lay two earthly Women,
And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawn'd with the other; for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow,

Woman. Colton.

WOMEN that

are the least bashful are not unfre quently the most modest; and we are never more deceived, than when we would infer any laxity of Principle, from that freedom of Demeanour which often arises from a total ignorance of Vice.

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Woman. Shakespeare.

WHERE is any Author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a Woman's eye?
Woman. Otway.

NGELS were painted fair to look like you:
There's in you all that we believe of Heav'n--

Amazing Brightness, Purity, and Truth,

Eternal Joy, and everlasting Peace.

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Woman. — Herder.

AST among the characteristics of Woman, is that sweet motherly Love with which Nature has gifted her; it is almost independent of cold Reason, and wholly removed from all selfish hope of reward. Not because it is lovely, does the Mother love her Child, but because it is a living part of herself,—the Child of her Heart, a fraction of her own nature. Therefore do her entrails yearn over his wailings; her Heart beats quicker at his joy; her blood flows more softly through her veins, when the Breast at which he drinks knits him to her. In every uncorrupted nation of the earth, this feeling is the same; climate, which changes everything else, changes not that. -It is only the most corrupting forms of society which have power gradually to make luxurious Vice sweeter than the tender cares and toils of Maternal Love.

Woman.

Shakespeare.

CONSTANT you are;

But yet a Woman: and for secrecy,

No lady closer; for I well believe,

Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
And so far will I trust thee.

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JOTHING makes a Woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than Chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or, that nothing besides Chastity, with its collateral attendants, Truth, Fidelity, and Constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

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Woman. Spenser.

RUST not the Treason of those smiling looks,

ye have their quileful trains

For they are like unto golden hooks,

That from the foolish Fish their bates do hide.

is perhaps true, that Women generally come into life with higher ideas of Delicacy than Men; but I believe it is true also, that they generally retire from Life with lower.

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Woman.

Shakespeare.

HER Voice was ever soft,

Gentle and low; an excellent thing in Woman.

HAVE often thought that the nature of Women was inferior to that of Men in general, but superior in particular.

THE World is the book of Women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by Observation than by Reading.

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Woman. Shakespeare.

AKE the doors upon a Woman's wit, and it will out at the Casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the Key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the Chimney.

With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit:
And, in strong proof of Chastity well arm'd,

From Love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
Nor bide th' Encounter of assailing eyes,
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing Gold.

W touched by Friendship is, that it is insipid when

HAT causes the majority of Women to be so little

they have once tasted of Love.

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Woman. Shakespeare.

HE is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a Disposition, she holds it a Vice in her Goodness not to do more than she is requested.

In any honest suit, she's fram'd as fruitful

As the free Elements.

MODESTY in Woman, say some shrewd Philosophers,

is not natural: it is artificial and acquired; but what then, and to what end, is that natural Taste, that delicate Sensation, that Approbation of it, in Man?

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ALL of her, that is out of door most rich,
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,
She is alone the Arabian bird.

Woman. Colton.

BEAUTIFUL Woman, if poor, should use a double circumspection; for her Beauty will tempt others, her Poverty herself.

Shakespeare.
SHE'S a lady

So tender of Rebukes, that words are strokes,
And strokes Death to her.

Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate:
Youth, Beauty, Wisdom, Courage, Virtue, all
That Happiness and prime can happy call.

Woman. La Rochefoucauld.

YOQUETTES make a merit of being jealous of their Lovers, to conceal their being envious of other Women.

Shakespeare.

FOR she is wise, if I can judge of her;

And fair she is, if that mine Eyes be true;
And true she is, as she hath prov'd herself;
And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant Soul.

Shakespeare.

FEAR, and Niceness,

The handmaids of all Women, or more truly,
Woman its pretty Self.

KINDNESS in Women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my Love.

DUMB jewels often, in their silent kind,

More than quick words, do move a Woman's mind.

Woman.

Lavater.

SHE neglects her Heart who studies her Glass.