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Mary Astell Quotes

Mary Astell quotes

English Writer December 12, 1666 – May 11, 1731

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Mary Astell quote: "The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any..."
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. Mary Astell
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
Mary Astell quote: "If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He..."
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
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
Mary Astell quote: "How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a..."
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
Mary Astell quote: "That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of..."
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. Mary Astell
Mary Astell quote: "God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other..."
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. Mary Astell
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
Mary Astell quote: "Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice,..."
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell
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
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
Mary Astell quote: "If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born..."
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? Mary Astell
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
Mary Astell quote: "How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible..."
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? Mary Astell
Mary Astell quote: "Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages..."
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached. Mary Astell

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