Quote by Mary Astell
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and t

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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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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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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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. – Mason Cooley

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We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. – Robert Hall

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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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