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Mary Astell Wisdom

Mary Astell | wisdom

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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Mary Astell Wisdom

Mary Astell | wisdom

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.

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Mary Astell Wisdom

Mary Astell | 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.

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Mary Astell Truth

Mary Astell | truth

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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Mary Astell | respect

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

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Mary Astell religion

Mary Astell | religion

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

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marriage Mary Astell

Mary Astell | marriage

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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Mary Astell | knowledge

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.

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Mary Astell | knowledge

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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happiness Mary Astell

Mary Astell | happiness

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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