Mary Astell Quotes

• To plead for the Oppress’d and to defend the Weak seem’d to me a generous undertaking; for tho’ it may be secure, ’tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

  Mary Astell

• To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won’t practise himself.

  Mary Astell

• ‘Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou’d, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

  Mary Astell

• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on’t.

  Mary Astell

• The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

  Mary Astell

• The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

  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

• The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God’s Eyes.

  Mary Astell

• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

  Mary Astell

• That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

  Mary Astell

• That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

  Mary Astell

• Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

  Mary Astell

• None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

  Mary Astell

• He who will be just, must be forc’d to acknowledge, that neither S*x are always in the right.

  Mary Astell

• God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

  Mary Astell

• Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

  Mary Astell

• None of God’s Creatures absolutely consider’d are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

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• Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

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• It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

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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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Mary Astell (54)

Birth:	12th November, 1666
Death:	11th May, 1731
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

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