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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to

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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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. – Mary Astell

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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – Mary Astell

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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, – to give lifes best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. – Joshua Chamberlain

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A womans best protection is a little money of her own. – Clare Boothe Luce

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