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Mary Astell

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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A.E. Samaan

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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A.E. Samaan

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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A.E. Samaan

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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A.E. Samaan

"Time is a precious gift."

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A.E. Samaan

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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A.E. Samaan

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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A.E. Samaan

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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Mary Astell
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."

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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
"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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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
"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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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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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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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
"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."

Happiness

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