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"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
"When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror."
"What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you."
"In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self."
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"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
"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."
"None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves."
"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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