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Mary Astell

"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."

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"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."

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Donna Grant

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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Donna Grant

"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."

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Donna Grant

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Donna Grant

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"Large families are communities unto their own."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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Donna Grant

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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Donna Grant

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

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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
"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."

Religion

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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
"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."

Truth

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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."

Nature

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

Life

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