Mary Astell Quotes


Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. Mary Astell Best 95
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. Mary Astell Glass 92
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 Content 91
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 Wisdom 90
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? Mary Astell Contemptible 86
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. Mary Astell Design 85
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. Mary Astell Prevail 84
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? Mary Astell Men 81
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 Design 81
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. Mary Astell Religion 78
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 Avoid 76
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. Mary Astell Affections 73
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. Mary Astell Life 73
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? Mary Astell Marriage 72
We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess. Mary Astell Mean 72
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 Nature 70
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 Action 70
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. Mary Astell Doubt 69
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? Mary Astell Born 68
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. Mary Astell Happy 67
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. Mary Astell Chains 63
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 Excellency 62
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. Mary Astell Greatest 51
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. Mary Astell Endowments 50
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell Education 49
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. Mary Astell Another 48
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. Mary Astell Wisdom 47
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 Beings 46
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 Believe 45
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 Lasting 42
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. Mary Astell best 42
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 Wisdom 33
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached. Mary Astell Advantages 30
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. Mary Astell Atheism 29
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 Amiable 28
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. Mary Astell Honour 24
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 Adam 23

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