Mary Astell Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Astell
Mary Astell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
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.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
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.
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.'
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
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.
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
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.