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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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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
- Mary Astell
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#Own
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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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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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#Wisdom
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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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
- 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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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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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
- 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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#Much
#Necessary
#Sacred
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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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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
- Mary Astell
#Life Is Too Short
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#Matters
#Short
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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#May
#Much
#Our
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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#He
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#She
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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#He
#Nothing
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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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#Pleasure
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
- Mary Astell
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#How
#Men
#Women
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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#God
#Insect
#Nature
#Own
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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#Fine
#Good
#Nothing
#World
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
- Mary Astell
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#Truth Is
#Truth
#Will
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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#She
#Woman
#Women
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