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Mary Astell Quotes
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom (Mary Astell Quotes)
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence (Mary Astell Quotes)
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex (Mary Astell Quotes)
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him (Mary Astell Quotes)
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best (Mary Astell Quotes)
But, alas! what poor woman is ever taught that she should have a higher design than to get her a husband? (Mary Astell Quotes)
There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it (Mary Astell Quotes)
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled (Mary Astell Quotes)
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? (Mary Astell Quotes)
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail (Mary Astell Quotes)
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? (Mary Astell Quotes)
A woman indeed can’t properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered (Mary Astell Quotes)
Friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue (Mary Astell Quotes)
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty (Mary Astell Quotes)
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds (Mary Astell Quotes)
A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman (Mary Astell Quotes)
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing (Mary Astell Quotes)
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in (Mary Astell Quotes)
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up (Mary Astell Quotes)
The design of rhetoric is to remove those prejudices that lie in the way of truth, to reduce the passions to the government of reasons; to place our subject in a right light, and excite our hearers to a due consideration of it (Mary Astell Quotes)
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it (Mary Astell Quotes)
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private (Mary Astell Quotes)
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