Astell Quotes
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Astell 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.
— Mary Astell
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
— Mary Astell
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
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
— Mary Astell
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
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
— Mary Astell
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
— Mary Astell
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
— Mary Astell
He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
— Mary Astell
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
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
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.'
— Mary Astell
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
— Mary Astell
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
— Mary Astell
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
— Mary Astell
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
— Mary Astell
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
— Mary Astell
We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
— Mary Astell
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
— Mary Astell
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
— Mary Astell
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
— Mary Astell
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
— Mary Astell
None can be Tyrants but Cowards.
— Mary Astell
