Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

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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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If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

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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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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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Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

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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.

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Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

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