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We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell
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Mary Astell
Age: 64 †
Born: 1666
Born: November 12
Died: 1731
Died: May 11
Feminist
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Newcastle
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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.
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If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.
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A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
Mary Astell
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
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. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
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friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.
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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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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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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.
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Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
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Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.
Mary Astell
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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.
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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
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
Mary Astell
