"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any……" — Mary Astell
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
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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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More Another Mind Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.
— Unknown Author
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When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable…
— Ilchi Lee
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The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.
— Eula Biss
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
— Arnold Bennett
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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
— Dario Argento
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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some…
— Sol LeWitt
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
— James Russell Lowell
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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their…
— Diane Setterfield
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A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it?…
— Charles de Lint
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If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over."…
— Deepak Chopra
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