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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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.Mary Astell
. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
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For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
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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 God's Eyes.
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