"If none were to Marry, but Men of……" — Mary Astell
"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."
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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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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to…
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would…
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
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