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Mary Astell

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
— Mary Astell time
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 world
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 men
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 love
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
— Mary Astell life
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell poor
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
— Mary Astell man
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
— Mary Astell wise
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
— Mary Astell women
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 good
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
— Mary Astell great
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell education
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 man
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
— Mary Astell art
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 wisdom
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
— Mary Astell sin
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
— Mary Astell knowledge
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
— Mary Astell mind
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
— Mary Astell good
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
— Mary Astell wit
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
— Mary Astell love
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
— Mary Astell men
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
— Mary Astell art
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
— Mary Astell art
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
— Mary Astell men

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