mary-astell

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
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A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
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If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family ?
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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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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection of your own minds.
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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
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