God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
More Quotes from Mary Astell:
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.Mary Astell
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
Mary Astell
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary Astell
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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.
Mary Astell
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