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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."

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"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."

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"Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one's conduct in ignorance of the self."

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"I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away."

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"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."

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

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

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"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion."

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

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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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"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."

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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."

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

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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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