"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught……" — Mary Astell
"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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46 Quotes by Mary Astell
Mary Astell has 46 quotes on this site.
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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
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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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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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