"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
-Mary Astell
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"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.“
-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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"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."
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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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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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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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