All Mary Astell Quotes
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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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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'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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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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.
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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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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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He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
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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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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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