Quote by Mary Astell
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perh

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. – Mary Astell

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

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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. – Mary Astell

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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. – Mary Astell

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Wise men still seek Him today. – Dan Bell

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Wise care keeps what it has gained. – Danish proverb

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. – Mary Wilson Little

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what youre told. – Dave Barry

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins

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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. – H. P. Blavatsky

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