Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
More Quotes from Mary Astell:
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.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
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
Mary Astell
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
Mary Astell
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
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell
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