"How can a Man respect his Wife when……" — Mary Astell
"How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?"
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Mary Astell
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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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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
— Mary Astell
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a…
— Edmund Burke
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
— Albert Einstein
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
— David Hume
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.…
— Francis Bacon
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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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