"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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"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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"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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"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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"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant
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