Quotes by Mary Astell

"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."

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"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

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"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."

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