Famous Mary Astell Quotes

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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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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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
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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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