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Famous Quotes By Mary Astell

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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. — Mary Astell

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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

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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

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For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company. — Mary Astell

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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

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None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. — Mary Astell

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None can be Tyrants but Cowards. — Mary Astell

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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. — Mary Astell

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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. — Mary Astell

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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. — Mary Astell

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. — Mary Astell

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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell

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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell

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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

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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell

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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. — Mary Astell

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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

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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

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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. — Mary Astell

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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

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Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason or cause a reverence in our hearts, and the poor creature sinks beneath our notice, because not supported by real worth. — Mary Astell

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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

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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. — Mary Astell

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Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? — Mary Astell

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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. — Mary Astell

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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

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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. — Mary Astell

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Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached. — Mary Astell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. — Mary Astell

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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess. — Mary Astell

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. — Mary Astell

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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. — Mary Astell

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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

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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. — Mary Astell

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He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice. — Mary Astell

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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. — Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. — Mary Astell

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'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. — Mary Astell

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He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right. — Mary Astell

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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. — Mary Astell

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell

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If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family? — Mary Astell

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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

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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. — Mary Astell

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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell

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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell

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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? — Mary Astell

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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

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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. — Mary Astell

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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. — Mary Astell