Mary Astell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.”
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“Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.”
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“He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.”
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“How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?”
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“We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.”
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“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.”
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“Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.”
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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.”
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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?”
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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.”
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“. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.”
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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.”
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“Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw ...”
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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 ...”
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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.”
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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.”
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“If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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