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Mary Astell

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

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Donna Grant

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

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Donna Grant

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

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Donna Grant

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

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Donna Grant

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

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Donna Grant

"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

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Donna Grant

"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."

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Donna Grant

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

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Donna Grant

"There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!"

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Donna Grant

"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."

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Mary Astell
"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."

Man

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

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Mary Astell
"He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right."

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

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

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

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Mary Astell
"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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Mary Astell
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."

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Mary Astell
"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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Mary Astell
"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."

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